19 Oct
1998
19 Oct
'98
9:38 a.m.
"Max Eskin" <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
What about 386s? Did Intel outrun the mainframes with
the 386, or were
there discrete transistor machines with better performance than that?
The raw CPU performance of thet 386 exceeds that of many (but not all) of the
discrete-transistor mainframes (and even IBM's SLT-based mainframes).
However, system-level performance is another matter. How many 386 machines
had intelligent I/O channels, *AND* took full advantage of them?