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From: mcguffey@muvms3.bitnet (Michael McGuffey)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: 80386(SX)/68030/040 comparisons.  Anyone?
Message-ID: <31766@muvms3.bitnet>
Date: 6 Dec 90 09:13:40 GMT
Organization: Marshall University
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	This is probably a "frequently asked question", but where may 
I find what used to be sent out as a listing of benchmarks for "all" 
computers/OS's.

	In particular, I'm looking for performance comparisons between
the 80386(MS-DOS), 80386SX(MS-DOS), 68030(MacOS), and 68040(NexT unix).
Both general and a floating point hardware numbers would be appreciated.
Three platforms are being looked at for a Mathematics Lab using mostly
Mathematica, but also a variety of home grown and/or publicly available
software.  These numbers would only be one of several criteria for 
selection.  One vendor is claiming that the any program (Mathematica,
Pagemaker, etc.) running on a 16MHz 386SX MSDOS system will outperform
the same program running on a MacIIsi (20MHz 68030).  I find this difficult
to swallow, so I'm appealing to the net for any assistance.

	If anyone knows of some available comparisons, I would appreciate
hearing of them.

Thanks,
-- michael
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