On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Steve Crane wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:00:44PM -0500, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
>
> > a pentium, even one as old as a 60 mhz..they didn't work like
> > that..turbo mode went out with the 486, it was left on the cases as a
> > legacy item. :)
>
> I'm not so sure of that. The other day someone was asking about
> bogomips on the machines of another list's members.
>
> I checked mine and was surprised to see it only at 39. The bogomips
> howto suggests a P133 should get a higher speed than this. I had also
> always believed that turbo was obsolete but tried turning it on. I
> forgot about checking it afterwards until I saw your message.
>
> When I checked now the bogomips rating is 53.25, so the turbo appears to
> have made a significant difference. Or is it normal for the bogomips to
> vary so much on the same processor?
Nope. Must've been the turbo. I suppose I can gloat about this machine now
that I realise how fast it is, comparatively. 49.87 bogomips is pretty
good for a 486.
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