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- andreas@karlsberg.usask.ca (Andreas Schiffler) writes:
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- >Blacker (fran@sbbs.se) wrote:
- >: How fast (i.e which mac will be comparable in speed with) will Executor run on
- >: an Pentium 90/100 with 8 mb ram and S3 864 video card
-
- >With 8MB of RAM you'll have trouble in X-windows. You should get at least
- >12MB to avoid excessive swapping. I have the same video card and the video
- >performance is OK for most applications. Here are some benchmarks I did for
- >the LJ article that was just published:
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- > MAC LC III 68040, 25 MHz AMD486DX4-100
- > S3 864, 8bit X
- > under Linux 1.2.8
-
- Note that the LCIII is a 25 MHz 68030, not an '040. An 030 is roughly equal in
- speed to a 386 at the same clock.
-
- >Dhrystones 5.9 8.4
-
- >Spedometer
- >CPU index 6.8 13.9
-
- >Spedometer
- >Graphics 7.6 5
- > 5.1 (-privatecmap)
- >Spedometer
- >8bit graphics 2.3 1.2
- > 2.5 (-privatecmap)
-
- >Bottomline the DX4-100 is faster than a Mac LC III for almost everything and
- >if one uses the -privatecmap option for X-windows the grapics performance is
- >reasonable with an accelerated graphics card.
-
- >Hope that helps
- >Andreas
-
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- - hyong
- hyongel@merle.acns.nwu.edu
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