From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 19:02:13 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA21743 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:02:13 -0800 Received: from hq.icb.chel.su (icb-rich-gw.icb.chel.su [193.125.10.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA21738 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:01:53 -0800 Received: from localhost (babkin@localhost) by hq.icb.chel.su (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA14010; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 08:02:15 +0500 From: "Serge A. Babkin" Message-Id: <199511220302.IAA14010@hq.icb.chel.su> Subject: Re: Pentium Motherboards To: Jerry.Kendall@vmicls.com (Jerry Kendall) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 08:02:14 +0500 (GMT+0500) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9511211359.AA20361.gonzo@vmicls.com> from "Jerry Kendall" at Nov 21, 95 08:59:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 912 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > At the office(where this message is coming from), I develop on > a SparcServer 1000 with 4(count em, 4) processors. about 30 users and > 256 Meg of RAM. I get very good response. > > My Pentium at home gets even better response. Now I do my personal > development at home. feels good to boast at work that my HOME system > appears to give better performance. Of course, being the only one > on the system DOES have a little to do with it. > > BUT, it IS the users perspective of repsonse time that counts. > > AM I RIGHT ????? > AM I RIGHT ????? A SuperSPARC/50MHz processor is approximately equal to 1.5 * Pentium/90MHz by the processing power. Let't count what you get on your SPARC: 4 processors * 1.5 / 30 users = 1/5 of Pentium Your Pentium at home is REALLY faster !!! :-) Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia