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From: jal@acc.flint.umich.edu (John Lauro)
Subject: Re: 249 hours to generate MANDELBROT image on 286
Message-ID: <1991May2.124542.21865@engin.umich.edu>
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Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 12:45:42 GMT

In article <14697@encore.Encore.COM> rnollman@maxzilla.encore.com (Richard Nollman) writes:
>
>	my 286			his 386
>	------			-------
>
>	8 mghz			33 mghz
>
>	no cachex		64K cache
>
>	16-bit I/O bus		32-bit I/O bus
>
>	no math coprocessor	math coprocessor
>
>	249 hours to		3 hours to calculate
>	  calculate
>
>
>Where should I best spend my money to upgrade (best bang for buck)?
>Where am I losing the most processing speed?
>

The most bang for the buck in terms of fractint would be
to get a math coprocessor.  (A 4mhz PC with an 8087 is
several times faster than an 80287 without for floating point
calculations.)

If you want to really improve speed, get a 486.