[comp.windows.ms] DOS Apps under win /386 really so slow?

sebastian@soho.in-berlin.de (Sebastian Hetze) (06/18/91)

Hi there!

Having installed Windows on a 20 MHz 386 AT Clone, i ran several
performance tests.

The results are as follows:

		  DOS		 win /s 	win /386 *)

Landmark	30.1 MHz	30.0 MHz	4-6 MHz

Norton si	19.5 MHz	19.3 MHz	7.4 MHz

dhrystone 1.1	5555 d/s	5555 d/s	2272 d/s


*) running in window, foreground as only task, F/B ratio 10k/5k


The result of landmark and norton si might be explained by intensive
hardware access. Dhrystone is just looping a few calculations.

Is windows really eating up half of the performance?

wondering

	Sebastian


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