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- From: josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 07:52:53 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Message-ID: <1gs00lINN1vp@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1992Dec13.225845.7859@julian.uwo.ca> <1gi44lINNnp9@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec15.134558.1422@global.hacktic.nl> <1992Dec17.142054.29106@dvorak.amd.com> <1992Dec17.205530.2743@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- rvuori@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Rasmus Vuori) writes:
-
- >Actually I'm running my 486-33 at this moment without the external cache -
- >and norton sysinfo 6.0 gives me 72 times the speed of an pc/xt, the same it
- >gives with most other 486-33 with the cache on i've used.
-
- The problem with this is that Norton's SI fits nicely in the 486's internal
- cache. Try running memory intensive software (flight simulators such
- as Flight Sim and Falcon, or UNIX or OS/2). You'll notice the difference.
-
- --
- Joseph Chiu, Dept. of Computer Science, Caltech. josephc@coil.caltech.edu
- 1-57 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91126. +1 818 449 5457
- * Now running OS/2, Windows, DOS, and UNIX (okay, well, maybe not...) *
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