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From: jpd@pc.usl.edu (Dugal James P.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000
Summary: Sysinfo results
Keywords: sysinfo, benchmark, gateway
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Date: 8 Nov 90 20:07:42 GMT
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In article <10183@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee) writes:
>I bought one, a "VGA 386/25MHz", which arrived one week ago (4 weeks
...
>(2) The CPU+RAM seems a little slow.  I ran the Norton 5.0 sysinfo
>program and got these figures: CPU 15.7, Disk 6.6, referenced to
>the performance of an XT.  Norton gives comparison figures for a
>"Compaq 386/20e 20MHz": CPU 20.5, Disk 6.4.  Sysinfo also reported
>an av. seek time for the disk of 14.96ms and data transfer rate
>of 655K/sec.  (I had the Windows 3.0 disk cache in place when I

I have a Gateway 386/20MHz with instruction cache and an Ultrastore ESDI
disk controller.  Under QEMM sysinfo reports:
CPU speed 21.4, Disk speed 2.6, avg seek 16.1 ms, and DTR 0.0 KB/s !!
Coretest 2.91 claims a DTR of 1000 KB/s.  So your figure for CPU speed
seems low, and I don't believe the disk reports from sysinfo!

I tried Norton's SI, Advanced Edition 4.50, and got a CI of 24.3,
DI of 7.3 and PI of 18.6.

Regards,
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