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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!gator!dlpinc00!dlparker
- From: dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker)
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.115713.1131@dlpinc00.rn.com>
- Organization: Automated Data Management Services
- References: <1992Aug14.032421.22615@bluemoon.rn.com> <Bt1rp8.EKv@gator.rn.com> <1992Aug16.160841.5501@bluemoon.rn.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 11:57:13 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Aug16.160841.5501@bluemoon.rn.com> grant@bluemoon.rn.com (Grant DeLorean) writes:
- >larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >
- >>> Betcha couldn't guess what I am now running (SPARC 2)... :-} Want
- >>>to buy some ISC UNIX?
- >
- >>Don't be so quick to judge Intel based UNIX. With the proper hardware
- >>and OS an Intel machine could out do your Sparc.
- >
- > Maybe when the 586 hits in EISA configurations. A 486DX-50
- >with EISA won't touch it now, even if the benchmarks say it will.
- >In a quickie test, where both systems were running the same rendering
- >software on the same image data the SPARC finished in 2.5 hours
-
- But what was the video hardware on the 486?? How much difference would something
- comparable to an ATI GU make?? And how much of the difference is directly
- attributable to FP operations??
- --
- Dave Parker
- Automated Data Management Services, Pleasant Hill, MO 64080-1331
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