shenkin@cubsun.bio.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) (12/13/88)
wwc@boole.ece.wisc.edu (William W. Carlson) writes:
:>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 30, message 4 of 12
:>4. In my opinion, the 386i can't be beat on a price/performance basis.
:> Just looking at drystones, which of course should be taken with a
:> grain of sodium chloride, the 386i/250 significantly outperforms
:> any other sun except the 4 series.....
:> ..... For my work, which mainly involves integer
:> calculations, drystones are not too bad a benchmark and from my
:> personal experience the 386i is really a performer.
:> Bill Carlson
I use my 386i for floating-point calculations and am equally impressed.
It's fully twice as fast as a Sun 3-180 on my production program, which is
heavily floating point. That makes the 386i fully twice as fast as a VAX
11/780fpa for this application. I'm happy. I got the machine, with 327mB
drive, 8Mb main memory, for under $18k with academic discount. The 16"
flat-screen Sony color monitor is great.
Peter S. Shenkin, Department of Chemistry, Barnard College, Columbia University
New York, NY 10027 NEW TEL !!: (212) 854-1418 (work); (212) 829-5363 (home)
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