Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!qiclab!sopwith!snoopy
From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Goodspeed GS-32 users, anybody out there?
Message-ID: <67@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 88 21:55:29 GMT
References: <1036@majestix.liu.se> <1038@mina.liu.se> <52@gnome6.pa.dec.com>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <52@gnome6.pa.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:

|The 375, for those who don't know it, is a 32016/2MB/10MHz/0-wait box with
|a WD1002-05 controller that has room for two 48/96TPI 5.25" floppies and
|three ST506/412 drives (1024 cylinders/drive max, though).  All in a box
|the size of a very small suitcase.  4 serial ports, 38KB max.  Ethernet and
|SCSI are recent options.  It has a 32081 and 082, with NSC's TCU but a custom
|PAL for the interrupt control.

|It's a cute box, but it's slow.  The name "375" comes of having half the
|power of a Vax 750 (no kidding!) which means it has about 0.25 VAX MIPS.
|Dhrystone results bear this out.

Something doesn't compute here.  For most things, a 32016/10Mhz box is
roughly the same as a VAX 750, not 1/2 of it.  Have you run other benchmarks?
Dhrystones are a really poor benchmark, IMHO.
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