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RE: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? [message #4035 is a reply to message #3970]

Tue, 18 April 1995 00:00

mallozzi
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Registered: August 1994

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>> I know this isn't alt.intel.vs.the.world, but which CPU of which new
>> workstation is which P5 within hailing distance of? A low-end
>> SPARCstation? An AlphaStation 250 4/266? A 60 MHz P5? 100 MHz?

I ran IDL's time_test on a Pentium 90, and it took ~17 seconds. I then
ran it on a DEC Alpha, and it took ~35 seconds. Grant it, the Alpha had
about 40 processes going at the time, but the point is, the Pentium 90
is mighty quick.

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		Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: smithjp on Wed, 12 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: sterner on Thu, 20 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: velt on Wed, 19 April 1995 00:00
		RE: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: mallozzi on Tue, 18 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: Fergus Gallagher on Tue, 18 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: gurman on Mon, 17 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: ps on Sat, 15 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: kid on Fri, 14 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: ps on Mon, 24 April 1995 00:00

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