On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:17:57 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> 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.
Clarence,
You missed the major point.
Sam is using the HDD from the 386 over in the Pentium.
That's why it's only twice as fast.
Your 386 has an old HDD and your P90 has a new HDD.
That's the major reason why it's 8 to 12 times faster.
Try swaping HDDs and then see what happens.
You'll find that the 386 will speed-up and the P90 will slow-down.<g>
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