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From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.arch
Subject: Re: XENIX 386 benchmark results
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Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 02:43:05 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  5 02:43:05 1987
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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...
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