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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Single/Multi Tasking position summary (was Re: Single tasking)
Message-ID: <18080@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 30 Dec 87 05:35:19 GMT
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Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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In-reply-to: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU's message of 30 Dec 87 04:38:36 GMT

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>System		h:mm:ss	Notes
>
>Vax11/750:	1:39:00 (4.3bsd, 8MB, RA81s)
>Encore/Umax:	   2:10	(6 CPUS, make told to use at most 8 processes*)
>Encore/Umax:	  11:00	(same machine, use at most 1 process)
>Sun3/280:	  13:32 (16MB, Super-eagles, 68881)

I found that Sun number a little hi so I re-ran it on a much more
lightly loaded (eg. virtually no net traffic, which was the thing I
was worried about and mentioned in the original note) Sun3/280 with
otherwise similar hardware and got 9:55, I don't think it changes the
conclusions much however (relative to the spirit of this particular
discussion, trying to provide some anecdotal info), but honesty got
the best of me.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

The problem with moderate affluence is that you end up with so much
more laundery to do.