> > 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
Thanks for the info. I'll look into setting this up once I get another network
card for the 386.
Matthew Smith
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> > I just installed Slackware 7.0 on an old 386SX and I want it
> > to do distributed comput
>From: Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 19:52:51 -0500
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>On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 04:30:34PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> > > > phew. a 386sx is
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 07:41:09PM -0500, Nathan Russell wrote:
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> >From: Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 19:01:51 -0500
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On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 04:30:34PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> > > phew. a 386sx is SO slow I really can't imagine WHAT useful
> computational
> > > work it could do... Thats a 25 or so MHz CPU with a 16 bit bus that
> > > probably takes 5-6 clocks to do a simple integer operation. Oh, and it
>From: "John R Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Walt Mankowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Mersenne discussion
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>Subject: Re: Mersenne: 386SX
>Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 16:30:34 -0800
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> > >
>From: Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Mersenne discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Mersenne: 386SX
>Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 19:01:51 -0500
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(much snippage)
>It might be able to work on one of the distributed.net projects. I
>don'
> > phew. a 386sx is SO slow I really can't imagine WHAT useful
computational
> > work it could do... Thats a 25 or so MHz CPU with a 16 bit bus that
> > probably takes 5-6 clocks to do a simple integer operation. Oh, and its
got
> > no floating point. I'd estimate it at least a few 100 times
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 12:27:52PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> > I just installed Slackware 7.0 on an old 386SX and I want it
> > to do distributed computing of some kind. However, the
> > lowest CPU mprime allows is a 486. What can I do?
>
> phew. a 386sx is SO slow I really can't imagine W
> I just installed Slackware 7.0 on an old 386SX and I want it
> to do distributed computing of some kind. However, the
> lowest CPU mprime allows is a 486. What can I do?
phew. a 386sx is SO slow I really can't imagine WHAT useful computational
work it could do... Thats a 25 or so MHz CPU wi
I just installed Slackware 7.0 on an old 386SX and I want it
to do distributed computing of some kind. However, the
lowest CPU mprime allows is a 486. What can I do?
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