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From: dalegass@dalcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: New IBM, first impression....
Message-ID: <2528@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 15:10:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 15:10:57 1987
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Organization: Dept. of Math., Stats & C.S., Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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In article <816@oliveb.UUCP> tslu@oliveb.UUCP (Shang Lu) writes:

>> 	Saw and played with new IBMs today. 
>> 
>> 1) Norton Sysinfo says it's 1.9 times the speed of a PC. I was not blown away

...[ More PS/2 bashing ] :-)

>I could not agree more. The Performance System's 386 machine is 21
>( YES, I SAID 21 ) times the speed of a PC, but its basic model cost 
              ^^^^-- Where did you get this number?

>only $2,895. This is less expensive than the 20M 8086 based IBM System 30
>with color monitor ( $3,095 ).

...[ More comparisons ]



Is 21x a number from Norton's SI? 

Haven't people stopped using SI yet? It's insane!

I tried a few things on a 16MHz Compaq 386 recently and got SI=7.0,
the machine did not blow me away but it seemed quite nice.

SI=21 sounds too good to be true, and if it sounds too good....
Is the Compaq that bad in comparison or did I have my foot on the brakes :-)

Anyone know how long until we see the iAPX486?

-Jeff Scrutton  "Programming: The Turing test; only backwards."