Subj : Re: Using Dos Comms Software with Lantronix UDS-10
To   : Nightfox
From : fusion
Date : Fri Jun 07 2024 13:45:37

On 06 Jun 2024, Nightfox said the following...
 
 Ni> Similarly, I went from a 286-12 to a 386SX-16, and I thought the
 Ni> difference seemed a bit more than just a few mhz faster.  It also
 Ni> allowed running games that required a 386 - They would at least run, but
 Ni> wouldn't necessarily be fast. For Doom, I had to shrink the display as
 Ni> small as it would go, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 just didn't
 Ni> have a good frame rate (it was like a slide show).

yeah MHz has never really translated well between generations or types of processors..

the 386dx for example does 2.15 million instructions per second @ 16MHz
the 286 does 1.28 @ 12MHz .. here MHz doesn't really scale the same

the 486dx @ 33MHz, 11.1 MIPS
AMD Am386 @ 40MHz, 9 MIPS

however the 386dx above @ 33MHz does 4.3MIPS .. same base scales a little
more consistently (486dx2 also, from intel)

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