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From: steve@raspail.UUCP (Steve Schonberger)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: 386 Performance (was: Re: The GNU Manifesto)
Summary: "Ain't no way my P/95 is slower than the 386."
Message-ID: <15@raspail.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 88 03:20:47 GMT
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Posted: Sat Jan 23 21:20:47 1988

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> Ain't no way my P/95 is slower than the 386.
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> - John.
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How true.  I got a change to play on a P/95 at a seminar I took this month,
and it was amazingly fast.  About the only thing I have ever been on that is
comparable is the IBM 3081 I used in school, at least in I/O speed, and to
the degree I could tell.  I imagine the IBM was in truth faster, but since
the P/95 only had maybe 30 users on it and the 3081 had more like 150, the
P/95 did a lot better in response time.  It sure ran rings around the VAXs
I used in school.