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From: gooley@sunb4 (Markian "Party Mineral" Gooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 386 or 486?  EISA?
Summary: oh mother, is it worth it?
Keywords: 386 vs. 486, Unix, EISA
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.134444.29483@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 90 13:44:44 GMT
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Reply-To: gooley@sunb4.cs.uiuc.edu (Mark. "Party Mineral" Gooley)
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Suppose that you wanted to put together a fast 386 or 486 machine for
running Unix (okay, this is kinda oxymoronic).  How much faster is
a 486 machine than a 386 of the same clock speed?  Assume not too
much floating point.  Is an EISA bus worth the extra money, or are
most peripherals (e.g. disk controllers and, heck, disks) too slow
to profit by it.

Mark.
gooley@sunb4.cs.uiuc.edu