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- You wrote:
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- >
- >References: <m0tAvio-00000EC@beaut.ardi.com>
- > <Pine.LNX.3.91.951103165025.603A-100000@spam.blenke.com>
- >
- >>>>>> "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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- 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=-
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