Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 19:37:24 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: p6 will run windows slower than 586 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951001193447.14315h-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9510012055.F15632-0100000@kryten.atinc.com>
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On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > the p6 runs windows 3.1 and windows 95 slower than the 586. > a 150MHz p6 does 25% better than a 133MHz 586. not the scale of speed up > that was seen in 386 -> 486 or 486 -> 586 > > take a look at this url: > > http://www.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1995/q4/950907.pr.adv.advantage.html I read (latest Byte I think) that the performance of legacy applilations (read: windows) is so terrible on the P6 that Intel is working hard with Sun to create a P6 optimised Solaris so that there will be *something* available to keep the P6 from looking like a total flop. Of course, some of us might question whether solaris is an appropriate choice for such a task... -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============
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