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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 unix (was Re: 386 demand paged virtual memory)
Message-ID: <158@splut.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 19:23:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: splut.158
Posted: Mon Sep 21 19:23:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 00:39:45 EDT
References: <125@snark.UUCP> <299@nuchat.UUCP> <358@netxcom.UUCP> <1318@unc.cs.unc.edu>
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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Summary: Speaking of decent compilers...

In article <1318@unc.cs.unc.edu>, leech@unc.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes:
> In article <1337@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
> > [discussion about Bell Technologies' 386 Unix]
> >Dhrystone with registers was 2184.
> 
>     Is this a misprint, or has Bell set a new record for worst 80386
> Dhrystone performance? This is a really pitiful number. If the
> compiler quality in general is this bad, it seems like (much) better
> price/performance could be obtained by buying an AT clone and getting
> a 80286 Unix with decent compilers for it.

By general consensus, it seems Microport's compiler isn't all that swift
(seems to be a bit buggy), but I haven't seen performance numbers on it, and
I thought Dhrystone was fairly compiler-independent. (showing my ignorance
again... :-) Has anyone run it under Microport? How fast was it?

I'd like to run it myself, but have never seen it. Where can I obtain a
copy? Is it PD, or is there money involved? Does it float around the net at
times? If it's PD, would some kind soul mail me a copy? (Please E-mail
first, if you do...my /usr filesystem runs mosty full.) Thanks for anyone's
help...

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