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From: shane@inferno.peri.com (Shane Bouslough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 486SX - Intel now telling lies
Message-ID: <1991May24.153813.3913@inferno.peri.com>
Date: 24 May 91 15:38:13 GMT
References: <1991May23.143329.20564@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
Organization: Periphonics Corp.
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From article <1991May23.143329.20564@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>, by johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine):
>>In article <1991May15.210339.17118@unlv.edu> whitney@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (Lee Whitney) writes:
>>[trade article:]
>> ....  In addition, the 20Mhz 486sx chip delivers a 40 percent greater
>>performance than the 33Mhz 386 processor.
> 
> This could be true.  A 486 does between 2 and 3 times as much work per
> 

Not necessarily so... if I remember correctly, a recent bench test of
25MHz 486's in PC Magazine showed a 10% - 15% overall improvement on
a mixed instruction set test over a 33MHz 386. That doesn't seem like
good deal considering the price difference.

> -- 
> John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl
> Cheap oil is an oxymoron.

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