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[James Lockwood]

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Martin Frost wrote:

> If a P90 will do it, then a 486/100 should (the early Pentiums I've
> seen run slower clock for clock than the late 486s: I guess this is
> due to the fact that the system bus structure was less mature at
> that time).

The Pentium is considerably faster than similarly clocked 80486 chips, and
generally also has a faster memory bus as well.  Some Spec numbers:

System            CPU        ClkMHz  Cache      SPECint SPECfp  Info
Name              (NUMx)Type ext/in  Ext+I/D      92      92    Date
================= ========== ======= ========== ======= ======= =====
Micronics M4P     80486DX4   33/100  256+16       51.4    26.6  Mar94
Intel Xpress      Pentium    60      256+8/8      70.4    55.1  Mar95
Intel Xpress      Pentium    60/90   512+8/8     106.5    81.4  Mar95

For FP even a P60 is twice as fast as a 486/100.

-James