Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Mar 1998 10:42:50 -0800 (PST) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]: Linux is losing to Macs in the RC5 effort! |
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On 12 Mar 1998 ketil@ii.uib.no wrote:
> Btw - recent measurements show a PPro-200 running Linux to RC5 faster > than our brand new 270MHz Ultra 5 with Solaris. I'd like to attribute > it to Linux, but suspect the full-speed large L2 of the Pro has > something to do with it... >
My CyrixP150+ running Debian-bo is 4x faster than a SPARC-2 running SunOS-4.1.3 ewven with the Weitek CPU and SunOS is generally considered to be faster than Solaris on these machines.
I have it running on a few unused SPARCs at work, the Intel boxes beat them.
George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system.
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