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- From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.193644.17544@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <gf4ElH600iV4A39oMi@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov25.130250.10922@utkux1.utk.edu> <1992Nov26.000926.9507@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <Bz2C4s.FqE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:36:44 GMT
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- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
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- >>Hence the suprising results, such as a IIci being faster than a 486/25
- >>(in real activities such as Word scrolling) are not too far from reality.
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- >They must've had a Trident card in the 486.
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- No, it was a PS/2 M70 with IBM's 486/25 Power Platform(TM) upgrade
- board and the PS/2 built-in VGA. The Power Platform was the SLOWEST
- 486/25 implementation benchmarked by Byte, and the M70's built
- in VGA is legendary for its slowness.
-
- IBM has since figured out how to make PCs that run as fast as
- everybody else's.
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