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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
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Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors (fair benchmarking)
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Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 07:20:14 EDT
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I would think the "fairest" benchmarks should compare the following chips:

    68000 <--> 8086
    68008 <--> 8088
    68010 <--> 80186
    68020 <--> 80286
    68030 <--> 80386

And from what I hear, the 68030 blows the 80386 out of the water...


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