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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Vote on the Best OS
Message-ID: <1994Feb16.115937.10861@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 94 11:59:37 MDT
References: <2jb6ho$eag@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <10FEB199410231006@rover.uchicago.edu> <2jo71fINNsp@bonnie.sax.de> <Jk4r2+J.dysonj@delphi.com>
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In article <Jk4r2+J.dysonj@delphi.com>, John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> writes:
>  When I wrote the code for the RSX-11 based machine, it seemed to
> be so much better (about 15years ago).  I have an actual real-world benchmark
> that I demonstrated to them at UofI that takes 10mins on a 11/93 and takes
> about 5secs on a 486/66 running FreeBSD pre 1.0.

Pardon me for injecting some alt.folklore.computing here, but I've found this
sort of perception to be quite common. A friend a while back picked up a
used PDP-8/A, in part because he remembered it being fast. In truth, it's
about 300KIPS and was only fast in comparison to the other machines he was
using at the time.

Frankly, I'm not surprised that a 66 MHz 486 would stomp all over an 18 MHz
PDP-11, especially given how many cycles it takes the J-11 to do anything...
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Roger Ivie      | Don't think of it as a 'new' computer, think of it as
ivie@cc.usu.edu |     'obsolete-ready'