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From: gervasio@Ross.COM (Gregorio T. Gervasio, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: What do people have against BSD (or Linux for that matter)? (was: Whither NeoSoft)
Date: 02 Feb 1995 02:25:37 GMT
Organization: ROSS Technology, Inc. -- Austin, TX
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Message-ID: <GERVASIO.95Feb1202537@betelgeuse.Ross.COM>
References: <3g3s2k$6i@villa.fc.net> <3g8b6m$plu@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
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In-reply-to: peter@nmti.com's message of Tue, 31 Jan 1995 23:46:47 GMT
>>>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 1995 23:46:47 GMT, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) said:
[in short]
> Friendly local SS-10, no other users.
> % /bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null"
> 8.2 real 7.8 user 0.0 sys
> 486 DX2/66, no other users.
> 4.71 real 3.88 user 0.15 sys
> Alpha OSF/1 (DEC 4000/710), heavily loaded:
> real 3.8
> user 1.6
> sys 0.1
SS-10 clone, 100Mhz hyperSPARC:
% uname -a
SunOS betelgeus 4.1.3 7 sun4m
% /bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | /bin/bc > /dev/null"
4.1 real 3.9 user 0.1 sys
% /bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | /usr/local/gnu/bin/bc > /dev/null"
0.8 real 0.7 user 0.0 sys
> If performance matters that much, give DEC a call.
Or get better software.
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