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 Lines: 21 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. _____ /_____\ Snoopy /_______\ |___| tektronix!tekecs!sopwith!snoopy |___| sun!nosun!illian!sopwith!snoopy