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



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>>>>> "Ian" == Ian C Blenke <iblenke@blenke.com> writes:

    Ian> 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.

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

Poorly worded.  The subject line is: "Pentium Pro (i.e. P6) introduced
today" and when I first wrote the post I asked if anyone could get
one, to please send me speedometer numbers, then I thought about it
and decided to add the first paragraph in an attempt to stave off
architecture wars.  Sorry about the confusion.

BTW, we did have a version of Executor running on the Alpha for a
little while.  Expect to see one again, some day.

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

    Ian> *cough*

    Ian> - Ian Blenke <ian@blenke.com>

--Cliff