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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 10:44:34 GMT
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In article <25aq81$abf@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
> When you look at DOS machines, you have to pay close attention to just what
> the benchmarks measure.  Often, you will find the Unix-ish system had to 
> support 32 bit integers and a megabyte of memory, while the DOS system got
> to get away with 16 bit integers and 64k.

Oh yeh. On one benchmark (seive) Byte was reporting a factor of *11* slow-
down when the array size got over 64K.
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