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Subject: Re: 486: Fantastic or Flop?
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(Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>  I have been running benchmarks on 386s and 486s for about a month now,
>and the 486 is about 2.6 times as fast as the 386 at the same clock
>speed *for 32 bit software*. 
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Did you have an ISA or an EISA bus ? (Does it matter anyway? I guess it may 
with 32 bit software)
What 32bit software is available now for DOS ?
What 32 bit software is available now for UNIX ?

Eric