> > The problem is that a 20 Mhz 386 is loosely comparable to a 3 Mhz
> P-II.
It's much much worse than that. Even with a coprocessor, a floating point
add or multiply on a 386 takes 28-57 clocks; on the PII it takes one,
if scheduled carefully.
When the 386 and 486 were state of the art, some people used to make a
distinction between a PC and "a real computer". It wasn't because those
people were snobs.
jasonp
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