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RE:
	"Can some one out there shed some light on why a 32016, runs faster
	than a 750, in programs that access memory (using pointers or matrix
	type operations.)"

This might be relevant, or it might not:
One must take into consideration the software used. A friend and I have
recently run the Dr. DOBBS floating point benchmark on a number of machines.
Surprisingly, his S100/286, MSDOS system (with 80287) was within 10% of our
VAX 11/780, BSD 4.2 system. He used the new DRI FORTRAN, I used f77 (C
produced similar results).

I recently tried the same program on a 780 running VMS. The VMS machine
ran the program 4 times faster (8 times faster if the single precision
times are used)!

I suspect that we wound up measuring not so much the machines as their
libraries. Presumably, your memory intensive programs would be less
susceptable to this though.

Now if I could just find a 68k or 32016 system with that speed in
the $5000 range, I'd have something to look forward to.



						harold ravlin
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