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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Vote on the Best OS Message-ID: <hastyCLILt7.Dox@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2jo71fINNsp@bonnie.sax.de> <Jk4r2+J.dysonj@delphi.com> <1994Feb16.115937.10861@cc.usu.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 08:48:43 GMT Lines: 31 In article <1994Feb16.115937.10861@cc.usu.edu> ivie@cc.usu.edu writes: >In article <Jk4r2+J.dysonj@delphi.com>, John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> writes: >> When I wrote the code for the RSX-11 based machine, it seemed to >> be so much better (about 15years ago). I have an actual real-world benchmark >> that I demonstrated to them at UofI that takes 10mins on a 11/93 and takes >> about 5secs on a 486/66 running FreeBSD pre 1.0. > >Pardon me for injecting some alt.folklore.computing here, but I've found this >sort of perception to be quite common. A friend a while back picked up a >used PDP-8/A, in part because he remembered it being fast. In truth, it's >about 300KIPS and was only fast in comparison to the other machines he was >using at the time. > >Frankly, I'm not surprised that a 66 MHz 486 would stomp all over an 18 MHz >PDP-11, especially given how many cycles it takes the J-11 to do anything... >-- About the only thing I miss from that era is Teco :-) I still remember 18 years ago about the prediction that there was going to be in the future a PDP10 on a chip. So the question is how fast will computers be lets say in 9 years from now and better yet what will it mean. Will we all be making global weather predictions :) Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X