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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 486/25 Power Platform for PS/2 70-A21
Keywords: Intel 80486, PS/2 70, AIX, cost
Message-ID: <2342@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 89 01:23:39 GMT
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In article <25366@srcsip.UUCP>, rogers@falcon.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers) writes:
> 
> <As I understand it, this is a 486 replacement board for an existing PS/2-70.
> <Between buying the initial PS/2 and this board, you're up to around $10-11K,
> <right?  

	I've actually seen a model 70 running the 486, side by side with one
not running one.  In the benchmarks I saw, there were approximately three
dots on the '486 machine for every one on the '386 machine.  It was actually
slightly more than 3:1. And the '486 machine had an extra window open (the IBM
rep offered to close it, but I told him not to bother), so that brings the
performance probably as high as 3.5:1 But remember, that's 25 vs. 25.  If
one starts having 33MHz '386s, the gap narrows, but so does the cost. Me
personally, a 16MHz 80386 still seems blinding. I'm only months beyond 4.77!
-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
               "Why is it that half the calories is twice the price?"