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From: bandu@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jagath Samarabandu)
Subject: Re: What do people have against BSD (or Linux for that matter)? (was: Whither NeoSoft)
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References: <3g3s2k$6i@villa.fc.net> <791660505snz@apis.demon.co.uk> <id.7J_G1._DF@nmti.com> <3greme$d79@news.u.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 16:06:58 GMT
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In article <3greme$d79@news.u.washington.edu>,
>I did: time sh -c "echo 2^8192" | bc > /dev/null"  on a Linux dx2/66 machine.
>1.02: 3.85 user, 3.93 elapsed
>1.03: .98 user, 1.06 elapsed.
>What have we determined here?  That you should get GNU bc 1.03.  ;)
OK. I ran above in a P5-90 with Linux and got

0.510u 0.050s 0:00.55 elapsed
So you should get GNU bc 1.03 *and* a P90 (Hey, enough already with what it
can and cannot do ;)

Bandu