22 Nov
2007
22 Nov
'07
3:30 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
When I have my 12MHz 286 and my 16MHz 386sx on the same table, I will
run benchmarks just to make sure the both of us aren't going crazy :-)
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Could you
quantify "lame"? I used a 386sx-16 for years and it was
always faster (visibly, not just via benchmarks) than the 12MHz 286 I
had access to.
My own experience was the opposite. I had a 16 MHz 386sx that was
visibly *slower* than a 12MHz 286 that I also had. It was very
cheap and eventually just quit working reliably all on its own.
Perhaps that was an artifact of early SMT. OTOH, I still have a
couple of 386DX systems that have worked flawlessly since the day I
bought them. One uses DIP for memory; the other uses SIPPs.
So, perhaps my own was a victim of bad design. I never was even
tempted to purchase another, so bad was my experience.