Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:51:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance puzzler Message-ID: <199702012151.OAA06709@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970131204506.27974G-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from "John-Mark Gurney" at Jan 31, 97 08:53:37 pm
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> > Your bus on the 120 is 3MHz slower than the bus on the 66. What you > > are doing is not I/O bound, it is CPU bound. > > umm... this usually isn't true... most of the non 33mhz bus speeds (for > 486 based chips) are actually 40 mhz or 50mhz... the amd-486/120dx4 is > actually a 40mhz bus multiplied by 3... it's kinda like the Intel > 486/100dx4... the chip is actually 3x bus speed (33mhz)... Memory bus, or I/O bus? The PCI and EISA standards specify 33MHz as their top end. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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