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From: akm@uoregon.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: 386/SX Chip
Summary: anomaly using nortons SI
Keywords: 386SX benchmarks
Message-ID: <3521@uoregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 89 08:14:01 GMT
References: <3114@ihuxv.ATT.COM> <366@data.UUCP>
Reply-To: akm@drizzle.UUCP (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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I recently had the opportunity of using a NEC powermate with a 386SX, 16 MHz
and 2 MB of memory. On running Norton's SI (ver 3.00) on it (the only
software I could get: the machine uses 3.5" drives, and my software is
all 5.25") produced some strange results. Approximately half the time it
gave speeds of

	15.7 +/- .1

and the (approximately) other half it gave speeds of

	18.3 +/- .1

Can anyone explain this?

I also felt (gut feeling, coloured by the speed of the hard disk in the
machine, and I have no idea how fast that was) that the machine was not
particularly faster than my 12 MHz, 0 Wait State 286.