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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
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- Subject: Re: system speeds
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 19:39:32 EST
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- There has been lots of speculative discussion on what is faster, a system
- based on AMD's 40MHz 386DX, or any of Intel's 486 chips (SX or DX).
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- A recent review of these systems performing different tasks was published
- in the December 1992 issue of Byte.
-
- If the task uses lots of DMA or hard drive accesses, the 386 tends to be as
- fast as a 33Mhz 486 (and on rare occasions faster) because of its higher
- clock speed. As to be expected, the more CPU intensive the task is, the
- better the 486 systems will perform.
-
- Since real life is a mix of tasks, the 486 systems will generally out
- perform the 40MHz 386, but not by much.
-
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