From: Art Taylor (root@fab4box.wa.com)
Date: 04/22/93 

From: root@fab4box.wa.com (Art Taylor)
Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 20:40:50 GMT

>In <1993Apr21.131307.18788@microware.com> adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) writes:
>
>>Aha! There's the problem--you're comparing against a 486. The
>>Pentium FPU is slow _when_compared_to_other_64-bit_processors (Alpha,
>>for instance).

Actually, the Pentium(in _Integer_ performance) is about as fast as an Alpha
chip of twice the clock speed(ie, 66 == 125 MHz) 

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