Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbcad!ames!lll-lcc!pyramid!prls!mips!mash From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.arch Subject: Re: XENIX 386 benchmark results Message-ID: <497@winchester.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 02:43:05 EDT Article-I.D.: winchest.497 Posted: Sun Jul 5 02:43:05 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 09:35:31 EDT References: <127@spdcc.COM> <1090@killer.UUCP> Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 29 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.xenix:439 comp.arch:1563 In article <1090@killer.UUCP> jfh@killer.UUCP (John Haugh) writes: ....on 386s getting into SUn-3 territory... >I really don't know about the claim that the 386 is now in Sun territory. >I just benchmarked a Plexus P/95 (Yes, I know the list price is up arround >$100K) and it came out somewheres near 5200 Dhrystones at 20Mhz. The >25Mhz box we bought should be over 6000.... >And just for kicks, I bounced this into comp.arch where it might be >interesting for all of those RISC'y people to see ... Hmmm. You might want to read Rick's current Dhrystone lists. I realize my login machine does only a "wimpy" 10-12K Dhrystones, but I've got terminal sessions going on this instant on RISC micros that do 18-22K Dhrystones, and they are NOT wimpy [about 5 minutes CPU time and <13 minutes real time for full 4.3+NFS kernel build from scratch. This is slower than the Amdahl "3 minutes".] SunRise / SPARC /Sun-4 should be announced this week, and they ought to be over 20K Dhrystones, too. Rick's end-of-July issue should be interesting: at least 2 different RISC microprocessors will be on the list FASTER than IBM 3081s, CRAY X-MPs [to be fair, not built for Dhrystone:-)]. They will be slower than IBM 3090s and Amdahl 5860s...this year... -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER:UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086