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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!sugar!karl
- From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] xfig
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:00:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bzt28I.BGC@NeoSoft.com>
- Keywords: xfig slowness
- References: <1992Dec22.221238.29730@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.221238.29730@ennews.eas.asu.edu> berry@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Joel R. Berry) writes:
- >Is the 386bsd system
- >that much slower at running applications?
-
- No, it should not be. We had a problem not too long ago where one of our
- motherboards was not going into turbo. You might obtain the dhrystone
- benchmarks or equivalent and run them on your various machines. The
- results should be fairly close between the different OSes.
-
- Another thing is memory. If you don't have enough, your system will crawl.
- 12 meg minimum for X IMHO.
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