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- From: brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill)
- Subject: Re: BENCHMARKING Windows and OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.001725.3647@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- References: <1992Dec11.224957.3778@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 00:17:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.224957.3778@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >BENCHMARKING Windows and OS/2
- >December 11, 1992
- >by Timothy F. Sipples
- >
- >[This message is available as file winbench.txt, available via
- >anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu on the Internet. Followups may be
- >directed to comp.os.os2.misc, but please redirect subsequent followups
- >to comp.os.os2.advocacy as content warrants.]
-
- [I chose a different set of followups.]
-
- ...
- >Exact numbers are not available to me yet, but on a stock IBM PS/2
- >Model 57 with 16 MB of RAM and standard VGA, the relative Winmarks
- >were approximately as follows:
- >
- >Windows 3.1 on DOS 5.02 100%
- >OS/2 2.0x, FS Win-OS/2, Not "Optimized" 95%
- >Windows NT Beta 40%
-
- There is something very wrong with your benchmark Tim.
- Back with the September pre-beta, I might believe this number, and
- at that time I dual booted Windows 3.1 because I could not
- stand the slowness of the 16-bit Windows compatibility.
- But with the October beta (which you used), there is no possible
- way that 16-bit graphics runs at 40% of Windows 3.1 speed.
- I use this daily, with such programs as a terminal emulator, Visual
- Basic, Visual Basic games, MS Word, etc. By any chance does your
- benchmarking suite have sub-category numbers? If so, look at them,
- I suspect you'll find some really slow stuff in a couple of categories
- and the rest being normal.
-
- Also, could you make the benchmarking programs available I have two
- machines (identical configurations), one running OS/2 2.0 GA and Windows
- NT and would like to see what happens on them.
-
- One point, you were very fair about describing what you were testing, but
- left out one point that might not be understood by a newcomer.
- What you were comparing was an OS/2 beta that is supposed to be out
- this month, with a Windows NT beta that is supposed to come out 5-7 months
- from now. Doubtless there will be substantial improvement in the NT
- figures.
-
- Brian
- --
- C. Brian Sturgill NeXTStep 486 is for _YOU_!!!!
- University of Utah Microsoft needs competition, but I want
- Center for Software Science to be one of the many running Windows NT!
- brian@cs.utah.edu; CIS: 70363,1373 :-) :-) :-) NT SDK: $69; (800) 227-4679
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