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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:429 comp.os.386bsd.misc:723 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 01:13:19 GMT Message-ID: <CC34q8.4Fs@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <MIKE.93Aug19115915@pdx800.jf.intel.com> <250m5t$dmk@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> <252n71$2d4@fnnews.fnal.gov> Lines: 19 In article <252n71$2d4@fnnews.fnal.gov> dejan@cdfsga.fnal.gov (Dejan Vucinic) writes: > Now, the copmarison. Those were EXACTLY THE SAME MACHINES. Bought from > a same vendor, exactly the same equipment inside, 387 FPU in both of them. > Fortran on DOS was an expensive commercial product, it was dos 5.0 if I > remember well, and under DOS the program ran about a minute and five seconds > on both of them. We ran the program on BSD, fifteen seconds. Well, I know > that in real mode 386 emulates 32bit integer operations, but FOUR TIMES > FASTER!? Get real! Yep, I can easily see that. And UNIX disk I/O is better than ANY DOS I've seen, even with superturbocache installed. CC was about 3 times faster under Xenix-86 than Microsoft C (the same compiler at the time) under PC-DOS... both on an XT. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Hefur thu fadhmadh ulfinn i dag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."