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From: dan@idis.UUCP (Dan Strick)
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Subject: Re: 80286 benchmarks - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 21-Apr-84 19:33:56 EST
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Interesting.  Intel finds that the 80286 is twice as fast as the VAX 11/780.
I find something else.  I got my hands on a real 5 MHz 80286 system last
year and ran some simple cpu benchmarks.  I found that the 80286 system
ran between 3 to 6 times slower than the VAX 11/780.  I suspect the difference
is that Intel is reporting exceptionally favorable high level language
benchmarks which may not be worth the paper they are printed on.  I saw ads
in at least one magazine about 2 years ago that reported the same kind
of statistics (i.e. 8 MHz 80286 blows away competition) when the 8 MHz
version of the 80286 was apparently a figment of the marketing department's
imagination but all the other machines mentioned in the advertisement
were real.

				Dan Strick
				University of Pittsburgh
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