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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: curious
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Date: 10 Oct 89 13:41:09 GMT
References: <27415@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <433@inebriae.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
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In article <433@inebriae.UUCP> bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>The ideal development system for a truly "industrial strength" load is
>an APC-135.  On paper it's only 25% faster than a 125, but for a long
>series of compiles and links it's better than twice as fast.  I can
>get through a huge make in about seven hours that takes twelve on the
>aforementioned 16MHz 80386.  Since there was no mention of $$$ comparison,
>I'll leave it at that :-)

The 135 is [ allegedly ] 60 percent faster than a 125 on ``industrial
strength'' builds and such.  We had a French SE in our department for
a few weeks.  I'll see if I can remember to dig up his benchmarks.

The worst problem with a well-configured 135 =is= price.  A nicely
configured RT [ three-holer, SCSI, tape, megapel, 16MB ] runs
about $80,000.  I would compare it favorably against a 25MHz VME
bus 68020 machine [ which cost my former employers $120,000 ;-( and
only had 2 274MB 9" ESDI disks and 8MB of memory ]
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