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Re: Pentium Pro (i.e. P6) introduced today



You wrote: 

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>References: <m0tAvio-00000EC@beaut.ardi.com>
>	<Pine.LNX.3.91.951103165025.603A-100000@spam.blenke.com>
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>>>>>> "Ian" == Ian C Blenke <iblenke@blenke.com> writes:
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>    Ian> On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
>    >> I do not want to start a processor war on this list, so I will
>    >> not give my opinion on x86 vs. PPC vs. Alpha vs ...
>    >> 
>    >> However, if anyone can get one and run Speedometer under
>    >> Executor on one, I'd like to know the numbers that it gets.
>    >> Speedometer 4.0 numbers would be useful, too, although you'll
>    >> have to find a copy of Speedometer 4.0 and some of the numbers
>    >> will be (obviously) incorrect.
>
>    Ian> I'm a bit confused here... there exists both PPC and Alpha
>    Ian> ports of executor? I know that it is entirely possible (your
>    Ian> 68040 emulation is downright scary), however from what I
>    Ian> understand you still need to port some instructions a bit for
>    Ian> "native" host processor speed.
>
>Poorly worded.  The subject line is: "Pentium Pro (i.e. P6) introduced
>today" and when I first wrote the post I asked if anyone could get
>one, to please send me speedometer numbers, then I thought about it
>and decided to add the first paragraph in an attempt to stave off
>architecture wars.  Sorry about the confusion.
>
>BTW, we did have a version of Executor running on the Alpha for a
>little while.  Expect to see one again, some day.
>
>    Ian> Granted, you could run Executor under a SoftPC emulator (one
>    Ian> would suppose), but the mere thought makes me a tad ill ;)
>    Ian> (SoftPC emulation under Executor, under a Dosemu session
>    Ian> under Linux...)
>
>    Ian> *cough*
>
>    Ian> - Ian Blenke <ian@blenke.com>
>
>--Cliff
>
>

Well, on Intels Pentium Pro area, they have testamonies from people who 
were lent those machines, and they still should have them for a couple 
months, so, see if you can get their names and e-mail addresses, and 
contact them!

-=Dan Guisinger=-