Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!keithe
From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: 386 vs 020 and big benchmarks (sieve)
Message-ID: <2224@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 18:03:31 EST
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.2224
Posted: Fri Apr 17 18:03:31 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Apr-87 19:01:33 EST
References: <930@intsc.UUCP> <513@omen.UUCP> <933@intsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
Lines: 24
Xref: utgpu comp.sys.m68k:337 comp.sys.intel:142

Posted: Thu Apr 16 17:56:01 1987

In article <930@intsc.UUCP> tomk@intsc.UUCP (Tom Kohrs @fae) writes:
> 
> If all you want to do is calculate sieves all day then use the '020.  But
> if you want to do real crunching on large problems then the 386 will run
> circles around the '020.  That is not to say the '020 with the 256 byte
> cache does not have its niches.  There is a number of application in the
> embedded control area that have inner loops that fit nicely in 256 bytes.

This is exactly the kind of stuff one would expect to read in a posting
with this in the header:
> From: tomk@intsc.UUCP (Tom Kohrs @fae)
> Organization: Intel Sales, Silicon Valley, Ca.
                ^^^^^^^^^^^
And it is exactly the kind of posting that should only be published in
/dev/null.

keith

[this line added to appease the news posting program]
[this line added to appease the news posting program]
[this line added to appease the news posting program]
[this line added to appease the news posting program]