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- From: md94-tar@nada.kth.se (Tomas Arvidsson)
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- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 30 Jan 96 01:04:48 GMT
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- In <4edafi$47d6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> heitkamp@ibm.net (Frederick V. Heitkamp) writes:
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- >In my limited experience I have found that Windows 3.1 on a pentium
- >(120 I think) was pretty darn slow compared to an old Sun SPARC and
- >a PPC Mac appeared faster as well.
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- That doesn't surprise me at all but it says more about the performance
- (or lack thereof) of Windoze 3.x compared to the other OS's than it
- says about the performance of any one of the processors involved.
-
- >I don't necessarily trust those benchmarks.
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- You shouldn't. A benchmark is not an absolute truth nor a complete lie.
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- >Fred Heitkamp
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