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- From: bigras@mala.bc.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Speed OS/2 vrs. Windoze. sx slugs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.221700.585@mala.bc.ca>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 22:17:00 -0700
- References: <e04e9cd4@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> <6515150d@p4.f302.n242.z2.fidonet.org>
- Organization: Malaspina College
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- In article <6515150d@p4.f302.n242.z2.fidonet.org>, Hauke_Hess@p4.f302.n242.z2.fidonet.org (Hauke Hess) writes:
- > > OS/2 is also showing poor performance on my 386SX 16 with 6 megs.
- > > Using the 386test burn-in testing program in vanilla DOS 5 and OS/2
- > > with a single, full-screen DOS window yielded the following:
- >
- > > Calculations/sec (with turbo) | Calculations/sec (turbo off)
- > > DOS 5 | 9980 | 6595
- > > OS/2 2.0 | 1716 | 1469
- >
- > Please leave us alone with your benchmarks. Always remember: there are lies,
- > bloody lies and benchmarks. Yours was one of the bloodiest benchmarks I've ever
- > seen.
- >
- > Sorry, only serious. Your benchmark doesn't matter if you don't happen to
- > calculate fractals all the time. The main question is: do you feel it while
- > using DOS in OS/2? Do you really think, all the participants of this newsgroup
- > are dump and even more slow than OS/2 or how do you explain why anyone uses DOS
- > in OS/2 if the performance loss would be that large?
- >
- > Noone noticed until now, and if you think a little longer about your hardware
- > configuration, you might notice that you used a 386SX, that means: a 16Bit CPU.
- > Yes, 16Bit, try to imagine what happens if you do a context switch on a 32Bit
- > architecture that is emulated by a 16Bit Bus. It really halves performance (if
- > not more). And if OS/2 works in the background on the fly on a real 32Bit Bus,
- > it crawls on 16Bit. Try the same on a 386DX and post the benchmark once more.
- > Perhaps you will be surprised (perhaps we will be surpries, but I don't believe
- > in this)
- >
- > Hauke
-
-
- I use a 386/40 with 8mb / trident SVGA at home, bought just
- for 2.0
-
- At work I use a 16MHz sx with 5mb and I run the HPFS. The
- speed to load something is ugly, but I just leave it running
- all the time {several weeks MTTReboot} and that helps
- a lot as do the 720K multiple dos sessions I use for
- Novell network administration { multi servers multi windows }
- and the couple of connections to our VAX { through the net }
- that come in handy for mail and the internet.
-
- This system , slow though it is , is far more productive than
- win3.1 was on the system, and I don't think that
- Windows_Next_Turkey will quite install on that system.
-
- So if you can't stand the speed of your sx slug just spend
- $300 and get a new 386/40 motherboard, it will transform
- your system.
-
- Tony Bigras
-
- ok
-