Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!apple!oliveb!amdahl!pacbell!acsdev!bobm From: bobm@acsdev.uucp (Bob Marrow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Does anyone have 386SX Unix benchmarks? Message-ID: Date: 18 Dec 89 22:26:55 GMT Sender: bobm@acsdev.UUCP Distribution: comp Lines: 13 I'm thinking of putting together a Unix system around one of the new cheap 386SX boards. Does anyone have actual measurements of the speed of these boards running 32-bit protected mode software, as compared with the 386DX? I have seen a lot of MS-DOS timings (semi-worthless, since they tend to be of 16-bit 286 programs) and speculative flames that the SX is sure to be much slower because of its 16-bit memory bus (also worthless, I'm looking for hard numbers). I remember seeing a reference to an article on this subject in MIPS magazine a few months ago but have not been able to get my hands on a copy. If someone has it, can s/he e-mail me a summary of the results or post them to the net? Thanks much.