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From: jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: which is faster 386/33 or 486/25?
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Date: 12 Jul 90 12:02:48 GMT
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bnk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bob N Keenan) writes:

>Ken-

>That is not the answer to the question he was asking.  He wants to
>know if a 80386 33 Mhz machine is faster than a 80486 25 Mhz.
>Notice the different machine speeds?  


Assuming that the 386 system has a FPU,

it will depend on what you are doing.  Multiprocessing generally will go
faster on the 486, single-tasking systems will do better on the 386.


JB
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