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From: lmcvoy@eta.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 4.3 bsd on PC/AT
Message-ID: <8700162@eta.ETA.COM>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 04:42:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: eta.8700162
Posted: Thu Sep 10 04:42:47 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 10:19:55 EDT
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Reply-To: lmcvoy@eta.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
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In article <9200@brl-adm.ARPA> donn@rice.EDU (Donn Baumgartner) writes:
>send me mail.  Simple bench marks confirm that the AT is faster than
>your average vax 11/780 (but that's not surprising really).

Huh?!?!?  I ran compile benchmarks on a AT (1 Meg, 8mhz, 28ms 30 meg disk, 
running QNX) and they came out to be very similar to a VAX 750, a little 
tiny bit slower, actually.

I've also sat down in front of an AT (??Mhz Zenith, 1.5meg, 28ms drive, 
running Microport Unix) and that felt a whole lot slower than a 750
(vi in particular was slower than sh*t to start up).

What sort of AT are you running that you can say it's faster than a 780?
I might be persuaded to get over my distaste for intel cpu's if your 
claim was true.
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