Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!garth!phipps
From: phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Inboard 386 question
Message-ID: <2575@garth.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 89 02:28:44 GMT
References: <216100083@trsvax>
Reply-To: phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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In article <216100083@trsvax> johnm@trsvax.UUCP writes:
>
>If you have an Inboard 386 in an ... old 4.77Mhz ... IBM PC ...
>how much of a speedup could I expect from installing one?  
>Obviously the hard disk will still be the same old turtle 
>but the cpu should scream.  Is it at least a factor of 5 overall (...)?

I finally installed my long-neglected Inboard 386 in a 64 KB PC-1
(after retiring my AST ComboPlus board), 
and the Norton (version 4.5) "SysInfo" rating leaped from 1.0 to 16.5.

I admit that I haven't paid much attention to measurement of performance 
improvements in real applications; I've been busy *using* them
(toward a deadline that is about a week away). 
I am in the process of installing lots of new software and hardware,
such as a notorious 38 ms-access 40 MB-capacity 5_1/4 in. hard disk,
so as to overcome some severe limits on what I could do with the PC.

My previously sluggish but simple software seems almost instantaneous. 
I never had enough installed RAM until the Inboard 
for today's system resource hogs.  Your mileage will vary.
-- 
[The foregoing may or may not represent the position, if any, of my employer, ]
[ who is identified solely to allow the reader to account for personal biases.]
 
Clay Phipps                         {ingr,pyramid,sri-unix!hplabs}!garth!phipps
Intergraph APD, 2400#4 Geng Road, Palo Alto, CA 93403              415/494-8800