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- From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
- Subject: Re: A survey: Your dream operating system
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:26:53 GMT
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- cs011177@cs.brown.edu (Kwun Han) writes:
- >In processing, well, my 486-33 have a small test on floating point against two machines, a
- >Sparc-1 and a Sparc-2. The program was compiled with the same compiler (GCC) and the result?
- >My 486 is nearly two times faster than the Sparc-1, and just slower than a Sparc-2. The Linux
- >system comes with X-windows and many other applications. Sometimes it makes you think that
- >running a PC with DOS is a waste. And, with that speed, who need a Sparc?
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- Sparc-1/2s are OLD machines in the RISC world. When they were brought out
- they were faster than the corresponding PCs, but that was years ago.
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- Todd Walk
- walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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