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From: nichols@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Dennis Nichols, MACC)
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Subject: Re: Whets.C benchmark VMS vs UNIX
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In article <53@mq.UUCP>, alan@mq.UUCP (Alan H. Mintz) writes...
>1) MicroVax3100 / VMS5.3 / VAXC 2.2
>2) Dell Sys310 (386/20) w/80387 FPU / Dell UNIX SVR3.2 (ISC 2.0.?) / "Stock" C
>The puzzling thing is that performance on the 386 was 20% SLOWER than the
>MV3100. 

Maybe not so puzzling. From the February 1989 and April 1989 issues of MIPS, 
in round numbers:

                      Dhrystones     Whetstones-single     Whetstones-double
VAXstation 3100         4000             3000                   2000
Dell 310-20+80387       4700-4900        1600                   1400

Further details available from the issues cited above.

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