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From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (It takes a clear mind to make it)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Benchmarks of 68020's vs Vax's under load
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Date: 2 Jun 88 04:21:29 GMT
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In article <603@modular.UUCP> olson@modular.UUCP (Jon Olson) writes:
>
>I decided to test out some of the theories on the NET about
>Vax's being better at handling alot of jobs and high user loads.
>The benchmarks below show the elapsed time required for 8
>simultaneous optimized compiles of a 3783 line C program on
>each machine, with no other jobs currently running. Here are
>some stats on the machines with the following configurations:
>
>  1) Vax 11/780, 8Mb memory, VMS V4.6, VAX-C V2.4
>  2) MicroVax, 9Mb memory, Ultrix V2.0, Unix PCC compiler
>  3) Sun 3/60, 20Mhz 68020, 8 Mb memory, SUNOS V3.4

A more interesting version of this would run 1 2 4 6 8 12 16 20 users or
so, allowing a graph of results by load.  Any volunteers?

-dB
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