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From: jer@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Joel Ratsaby)
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Subject: 80486 v.s. Sun4
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Date: 18 Apr 91 06:38:17 GMT
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	I am a user on a multi-user Sun4 machine (Unix). My jobs seem
	to be too lengthy and are "niced" immediately after 2 CPU min.
	I am thinking about purchasing a 80486 machine. Does anyone knows or 
	could point me to information about comparing 80486 "PCs" to 
	not-only-PCs but mainframes ? if I could get a big improvement
	when running single-user on 80486 v.s. one-of-many users on Sun4
	then it would be very "nice".

	--Joel