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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors
Message-ID: <7181@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 11:41:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 11:41:39 1987
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <265@etn-rad.UUCP> jru@etn-rad.UUCP (0000-John Unekis) writes:
|In article <7144@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|>In article <257@etn-rad.UUCP> jru@etn-rad.UUCP (0000-John Unekis) writes:
|>|In article <7042@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:

|[...]
|I reran the BYTE fibonacci sequence test under controlled conditions, and
|instead of the 20 to 1 advantage that BYTE claimed for the 80386, an
|accurately measured(using UNIX time command)test showed that a 16Mhz 80386 was
|only 12% faster than a 12Mhz 68020. 

My original posting has been expired, but I believe that the 12MHz
machine also outran the 16MHz 68020, due to no wait states. I hope to be
able to run the benchmark on two Suns and two 386's at known CPU speeds
and wait states. I'll post the results here and leave the topic of
benchmarking alone until then.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {chinet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me