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Re: Pentium Pro (i.e. P6) introduced today



On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:

> I do not want to start a processor war on this list, so I will not
> give my opinion on x86 vs. PPC vs. Alpha vs ...
> 
> However, if anyone can get one and run Speedometer under Executor on
> one, I'd like to know the numbers that it gets.  Speedometer 4.0
> numbers would be useful, too, although you'll have to find a copy of
> Speedometer 4.0 and some of the numbers will be (obviously) incorrect.

I'm a bit confused here... there exists both PPC and Alpha ports of 
executor? I know that it is entirely possible (your 68040 emulation is 
downright scary), however from what I understand you still need to port 
some instructions a bit for "native" host processor speed.

Granted, you could run Executor under a SoftPC emulator (one would 
suppose), but the mere thought makes me a tad ill ;)
(SoftPC emulation under Executor, under a Dosemu session under Linux...)

*cough*

- Ian Blenke <ian@blenke.com>



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