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From: Michael Squires <mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Is this a reasonable platform for SCO Unix?
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.143342.18221@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Summary: numbers, please
Keywords: benchmarking
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.
References: <CHAS.91Apr24095031@stax.uchicago.edu> <638@mixcom.COM>
Distribution: comp.unix.sysv386
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 14:33:30 -0500

In article <638@mixcom.COM> ggvvgg@mixcom.COM (Dave Fenske) writes:
>If you REALLY want to have sexy windows.  And, if you really want Unix, but
>still might want to run DOS applications from time to time, why not
>consider a nice Sun Sparcstation.  You'll get better performance (much 
>better) and save money.

A 486/25 under SCO ODT 1.0 clocked at 21K 1.1 Dhrystones/sec; the same code
compiled on a SPARCStation-1 clocked at the same, 21K/sec.  A very short
loop running under the elk 1.3 SCHEME interpreter showed nearly identical
wall clock times running on a SPARCStation 1+ and the same 486/25 (if anyone
wants to play with SCHEME elk 1.3 has 386 UNIX support and compiles without
signficant changes using Microsoft C).

DOS Merge on the 486/25 should be much faster than a DOS emulator on the
SPARC.  

I don't use the SCO X11R3 and have not installed the X11R4 X386, but the
SPARC graphics is clearly much much better than what I've got.  

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