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From: rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: _UNIX_Today!_ hits a new benchmarking low
Summary: small correction (Inboard has cache) but conclusions hold
Message-ID: <16055@vail.ICO.ISC.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 89 15:08:52 GMT
References: <16054@vail.ICO.ISC.COM>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp, Boulder, CO
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In article <16054@vail.ICO.ISC.COM>, rcd@ico.ISC.COM (that's me) complained
about a _UNIX_Today!_ article.  At one point I said:

> The Intel/Bell Tech machine is a 25 MHz 386 with 64K cache.  386/ix was
> tested on a 16 MHz 386 "Inboard" (a 386 add-in board) which has no cache.
> This probably represents about a 2:1 CPU speed difference.

I was wrong; the Inboard DOES have a cache and the CPU speed difference
(based on other cached 386-25's) is more like 1.6 - 1.7.  This is still
significant, and doesn't affect the remainder of what I wrote since the
more significant differences are in the disk subsystems.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com    uucp: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd     (303)449-2870
   ...Are you making this up as you go along?