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- >>>>> "Ian" == Ian C Blenke <iblenke@blenke.com> writes:
-
- 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
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