[WinMac] Re: VPC speed on a G3

philz(zampino[at]squidco.com)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:07:49 -0400

>I run VPC on a 300 Mhz G3 with 160 Meg RAM (110 Meg allocated to VPC).
>I also have a Pentium 133 laptop. The laptop runs slower than a desktop
>Pentium 133 because of the slower laptop chip.
>When comparing the speed of Autocad running on the Pentium laptop versus
>VPC, it definitely runs faster (about 50%) on the laptop. I would
>estimate the speed of VPC in my installation to be somewhere between a
>fast '486 and a slow Pentium.

I ran a ziff-davis benchmark a few weeks ago and it calculated the speed of
VPC running on my Crescendo G3 300 on a PowerMac 9600 (1M L2 cache, 2:1
ratio, 45 Mhz bus) to be about a 47Mhz pentium. I should note that the
benchmark complained about some of the required VPC programs running during
the test, but I doubt that this skewed the results significantly.

philz

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