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From: dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT >> 386SX
Message-ID: <867@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 91 21:16:36 GMT
References: <1002@stewart.UUCP>
Organization: NCR Corp. SE-San Diego
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In <1002@stewart.UUCP> jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel) writes:

>Quite true.  About processor speed:  I'm running UNIX with X and Motif and
>all that stuff on a supercheap (REALLY CHEAP) 16 MHz 386SX with 8MB RAM.  I
>find that the processor is plenty fast enough.  It seems that for UNIX,
>especially for a personal UNIX box, the disk performance is much more of a
>limiting factor than processor speed.

At last! I've been suggesting the 'SX to people for UNIX, provided they
have enough (8 IS enough) RAM, a fast SCSI or ESDI disk controller, and
a FAST!!! VGA.  All a 33MHz '486 does is wait on I/O a lot faster than
the 16MHz '386SX (unless you do a LOT of floating point), 'specially on
an ISA (AT) bus.

Of course, NOW I can try to lead people to the A3000, instead.  All I
need is a catalog, like Sun has, with a decent listing of V.4/68K
canned applications (various DBMs, spreadsheets, etc.).  Has anybody
tried running a Motorola, Force, etc. V.3 application on an A3000?

Dan Taylor