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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Look, this is depressing! I'm outta here, folks! Date: 27 Jun 1996 21:09:58 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4qutb6$9p@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31C6A7A0.7DE14518@freebsd.org> <slrn4sel0c.5q.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960625175612.19043B-100000@ravi.lums.edu.pk> <4qt4qf$gl@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > I'm not surprised that it's slower than AIX - the hardware's > different. A RISC chip as far as I know is far faster than a Pentium. That's not entirely true. The old RS/6k (model 320) we've got at work is quite slower than a 486/33. :-) Seriously, somebody posted the location for `spectable', a collection of SPEC numbers (i think it was somewhere at the U. of Toronto). The i586 and i686 machines came out rather good, in particular in their integer performance (which is usually more impartant than FP for a server-type machine). Of course, CPU computing power is only just one minor piece. You always have to consider IO troughput, memory and cache timing etc. But if you compare apples with apples, a full-blown PeeCee (which is nothing you'd get for US$ 2k :) doesn't necessarily differ from other machines of the same class (CPU clock, SCSI equipment, memory size) by an order of magnitude. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)