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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 vs 286 vs 8088
Message-ID: <1461@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 89 16:14:33 GMT
References: <8595@max.u.washington.edu> <2545289F.25729@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <2545289F.25729@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:

|     The 386 is quite a bit faster at a given clock rate than the 286. 

  This does not agree with published measurements or any I've taken.
Usually a 286 at the same clock speed is a few percent faster. This
assumes using DOS and 8088 instruction set.
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|  there is software on the market which requires a 386.  Not too much at the
|  moment, but there will likely be more showing up as time goes on.

  True.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
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