Clarence,
I think that Michael Dawley's tests, if he does them as you suggested, would
clearly show the speed difference between 1.5x and 1.6x. Both of his
computers are running with an 8 MHz motherboard, while if we try to compare a
486/586 with a Pentium, albeit a 75 MHz Pentium, the motherboard for the
Pentium is going to be faster and give skewed results.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona
Clarence Verge wrote:
>>Now, to complete the experiment, you should put 1.50b2 on the '486
and test them again. To be fair, 1.50b2 should REPLACE 1.60b1 - not
just be added to the drive. There are a lot of factors which affect
that kind of test.
The timing measurements I made indicated that 1.60b1 IS faster than
1.50b2, but not enough to win that race if the '586 clock was 75Mhz.
In my tests, the versions were all tested using the same hardware
and the same test files by unzipping the required version to my
ramdisk.
I believe the '486 will still win if there really was a LARGE margin
before. Since I found only about a 20% diffference in speed, there
must be some other factor at work here. (IMHO)<<
