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Subject: Advanced Beginners
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Date: 25 Feb 90 18:03:33 GMT
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Category 2,  Topic 8
Message 42        Sat Feb 24, 1990
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 20:30 CST
 
 To Phil Koopman

 >I have recently seen some work that suggests that the Intel numbers 
 >for 80x86 series processors are extremely optimistic on real programs.  

 Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll check into getting the '286 manual.   Some
days I want to tune for speed and other days I'm happy when the  code runs at
all.  As you say, there are a lot of ATs out there.  They  don't have to be
good if they are cheap enough.  I did enjoy the old  days of predictable
instruction cycle timings - a selling point for the  RTX 2000/1, I believe.  I
wonder how our world would be different today  if Motorola had gotten the IBM
PC contract instead of Intel.

  - Frank
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