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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Vote on the Best OS
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References: <2jo71fINNsp@bonnie.sax.de> <Jk4r2+J.dysonj@delphi.com> <1994Feb16.115937.10861@cc.usu.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 08:48:43 GMT
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In article <1994Feb16.115937.10861@cc.usu.edu> ivie@cc.usu.edu writes:
>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...
>-- 

About the only thing I miss from that era is Teco :-)

I still remember 18 years ago  about the prediction that there was going to
be in the future a PDP10 on a chip. So the question is how fast
will computers be lets say in 9 years from now and better yet what
will it mean. Will we all be making global weather predictions :)


	Amancio
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