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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:615 comp.os.386bsd.misc:754 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 10:44:34 GMT Message-ID: <CC9F6B.Ft3@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <250m5t$dmk@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> <252n71$2d4@fnnews.fnal.gov> <25aq81$abf@umd5.umd.edu> Lines: 13 In article <25aq81$abf@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: > When you look at DOS machines, you have to pay close attention to just what > the benchmarks measure. Often, you will find the Unix-ish system had to > support 32 bit integers and a megabyte of memory, while the DOS system got > to get away with 16 bit integers and 64k. Oh yeh. On one benchmark (seive) Byte was reporting a factor of *11* slow- down when the array size got over 64K. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Hefur thu fadhmadh ulfinn i dag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."