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From: jason@hpcndjdz.CND.HP.COM (Jason Zions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BSD and HPUX, The Questions Continue...
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Date: 12 May 91 19:29:49 GMT
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68040 question: We have received a number of 25 MHz 68040 upgrades for our
400t's.Can anybody tell me if this upgrade is worth the work (upgrade to 7.05
on servers). I would expect better floating point performance, but does a 25
MHz 68040 really have any better integer performance than a 50 MHz 68030? Will
'gnus' run any faster? :-)

The 040 upgrade feels faster even on non-floating stuff, but that may be
just my imagination; I personally have no benchmarks other than that I dont
wait for compiles as long as I used to.

Rolling to 7.05 buys some other advantages, though; the limit on the NBUFS
kernel parameter (768) was removed, meaning your servers with lots of memory
can now use more than 3 meg of it for file buffer cache.
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