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From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: landmark & SI speed test, are they real ????
Keywords: si,landmark
Message-ID: <261BF5DD.24236@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 6 Apr 90 01:50:21 GMT
References: <4550@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <260E5FB8.5636@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1233@madnix.UUCP>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <1233@madnix.UUCP> tommy@madnix.UUCP (Tom Landmann) writes:
$In article <260E5FB8.5636@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
$>of instructions to include in the benchmark.  Norton apparently did a
$>poor job; it exaggerates the performance of non-8088 machines.
$I guess it is safe to assume that Mr. Dunn has an 8088-based machine. :-)

   I would never buy such an underpowered machine!  But my old 12 MHz 80286
and my new 22 MHz 80386DX don't have quite the increased performance over
an IBM PC that Norton's SI says they should, and many other people with
80286, 80386DX, 80386SX, V20 and V30 based machines (and probably also
a few others like the 80186, 80188 and 80486) have discovered the same
thing.
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               More half-baked ideas from the oven of:
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Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
     <std_disclaimer.h> = "\nI'm only an undergraduate ... for now!\n";