Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
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> I removed the hard drive and the modem from my 386 and installed it into
> an IBM 63 Mhz Pentium I, 12 MB RAM. I booted up this new system and
> instantly I was running my version of Arachne from the same hard drive
> as before and with the same modem and without the need for making any
> changes in my setup. It is my subjective impression that my new system is
> running Arachne about twice as fast and downloading web pages also about
> twice as fast as before. Wow! I'm impressed! Is anyone surprised with
> these results?
Yes Sam, *I* am surprised. It should run like a ROCKET on the P66.
Assuming your '386 was a 16-20 Mhz job, You should get a factor of 3-4
on clock speed alone. Add in the Pentium factor, and your local operations
should be 8 to 12 times faster.
What takes me 2 seconds or so on my 90Mhz Pentium takes 29 sec on my 16Mhz
'386 EVEN WHEN I USE A RAMDISK ! (NO ramdisk on the Pentium)
That's going to the Preferences page from Options. (virtual screens on)
Download time will be improved too but not nearly as much.
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