19 Oct
1998
19 Oct
'98
4:05 a.m.
What about 386s? Did Intel outrun the mainframes with
the 386, or were
there discrete transistor machines with better performance than that?
If one looks at the Linpack benchmark, the CDC 6600 was almost twice as
fast as a Sun 386i/250 (info lifted from
<http://lithos.gat.com/docview/linpack.bb>).
BTW, what did the Cray I use?
The Cray-1s used simple ECL chips - I think there were only four types in
the whole machine.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net