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- From: urbndv8@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bleeding Rivets)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Speed OS/2 vrs. Windoze. sx slugs
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 15:15:47 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- Some end-user type wrote:
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- > Using the 386test burn-in testing program in vanilla DOS 5 and OS/2
- > with a single, full-screen DOS window yielded the following:
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- > Calculations/sec (with turbo) | Calculations/sec (turbo off)
- > DOS 5 | 9980 | 6595
- > OS/2 2.0 | 1716 | 1469
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- On a 486/33 with 12 meg's at work, Norton's SI in a DOS Box shows approx a
- 70 CPU speed rating; the figure I get under DOS 5 is 73 or so ... Subjectively,
- that seems to agree with my perceptions of the speed hit I get doing other
- things. Another benchmark I tried just now, switching to a DOS full-screen
- session with two other idle windows backgrounded, gave my 386/40 a rating
- of 36.7 times PC-XT speed; under DOS 5 standalone it would get . Oddly,
- a DOS _window_ got a slightly higher rating, 38, consistently.
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- So this looks like user error. My guess would be he had little enough
- memory to force swapping.
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- box, or something like that.
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-
- --
- "The possessed's mad speech is the higher wisdom of the world, since it is
- human...Why have we not yet acquired this insight in relation to the world
- of the free will? Because outwardly we are the masters of madness, because
- the insane are violated by us, and we hinder them from living according to
- their ethical laws...Now we must endeavor to overcome the dead point in our
- realtionship to insanity." --Wieland Herzfelde, 1914
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