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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BEYOND DOS ? WHAT NEXT !
Summary: You've got something BADLY broken
Message-ID: <1989Nov12.055732.7189@ico.isc.com>
Date: 12 Nov 89 05:57:32 GMT
References: <13110@s.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation
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In article <13110@s.ms.uky.edu>, munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra) writes:
> I recently installed Unix (Microport) on a 20 MHz (Non Caching) Compaq
> 386 portable. It has a 100 MB 28 ms HardDisk and 3 MB of 80 ns RAM.
> It was ridiculously SLOW. ls takes 5 to 10 seconds. hello world in C
> took over half a minute to compile (without errors), on introducing an
> error it took around a minute before giving the error message.

I don't know what's wrong, but I know you've got something seriously broken
there.  Other folks have given comparisons with other 386 UNIX systems, but
here's a real "lower bound" for you folks to consider:  I ran the same test
as above on a Microport UNIX System (2.4) on an 8 MHz 286.  Note those
numbers.  Also, the machine has 2.5 Mb of 150 ns RAM and a 40 ms disk.
Hello world takes 18 sec to compile/link normally; if I introduce an
error, it takes 6.  So, don't judge "UNIX" based on one obviously wrong
datapoint!
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