Path: utzoo!attcan!seachg!jalsop
From: jalsop@seachg.uucp (John Alsop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: In defense of the TOWER (was NCR Series 3000 ...)
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.201104.28322@seachg.uucp>
Date: 22 Apr 91 20:11:04 GMT
References: <5900@holston.UUCP> <1991Apr8.161737.1851@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM> <105173@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop)
Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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In article <105173@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> vaigl-j@mad.cis.ohio-state.edu (James Vaigl) writes:
>                                               ... I can say that in
>most of the Unix benchmarks we ran, the 916 (a 16Mhz 386) beat a 700
>by *wide* margins on many tests.  There is not a tower made that can
>come close to the 3433 ( a 486 at 33Mhz ).

An Intel 403E  (486 at 33 MHZ, EISA bus) that we have here benchmarks at
16,200 Dhrystones.  Our TOWER 700 gives 13,954 Dhrystones with the same
test.

On a multiple process read/write test, the 700 is about twice as fast as the
Intel box.

Of course the usual disclaimers about benchmarks apply, but the TOWER is
clearly not all that bad.

-- 
John Alsop

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