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From: jsweedle@einstein.intel.com (Jonathan Sweedler)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 80486 v Sparc
Keywords: Sparc, 80486, Benchmarks
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Date: 19 Oct 90 22:31:50 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.040051.3483@frey.nu.oz.au>
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In-reply-to: kaos@frey.nu.oz.au (Iain `Kaos' Holmes)

In article <1990Oct18.040051.3483@frey.nu.oz.au>, kaos@frey (Iain `Kaos' Holmes) writes:
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>Recently at work I've been looking at a HP Vectra 486, they had a Sparcstation
>in for evaluation / comparison and the conclusion was that the 486 was faster
>, the 486 was runnig dos the Sparc Unix, what I was wondering was has anyone
>have any experience that confirms these results or otherwise ?

In the February 1990 issue of IEEE Micro there is a comparison between a
25 MHz i486 system (Compaq Deskpro 486/25, Model 650) and a Sun
Sparcstation 330 (also running at 25MHz).  The integer spec mark (does
not include the 6 floating-point SPEC programs) for the i486 system is
13.0 and the sparc system is 12.2.  So the results that you are quoting
have been experienced by others.  (I should also note that the i486
system was running Unix and not DOS).  I've also been told that AT&T
published SPECmarks for a 33MHz i486 system but I don't know what the
SPECmark was for this system.

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