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From: rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 386 machines are workstations?
Message-ID: <6533.26a0b4a4@vax1.tcd.ie>
Date: 15 Jul 90 18:23:32 GMT
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Organization: Computer Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin
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In article <770@orthogo.UUCP>, basti@orthogo.UUCP (Sebastian Wangnick) writes:
> lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes:
> 
> 
>>In article <768@orthogo.UUCP> basti@orthogo.UUCP (Sebastian Wangnick) writes:
>>>Some benchmarking with the BYTE code from comp.sources.unix
>>>proved that indeed this 386-PC (33 MHz, 64KB RAM cache)
>>>outperformed the Apollo workstation:

I suspect what you actually did was to prove your MS-DOS C compiler does better
optimization than the Apollo C compiler. MS-DOS has some of the best optimizing
C compilers in the world.

Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"