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Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan M. Bresler)
Thu Dec 19 21:19:53 1996

From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>
To: tli@jnx.com (Tony Li)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:05:47 -0800 (PST)
Cc: amb@xara.net, david@sparks.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199612192242.OAA23322@chimp.jnx.com> from "Tony Li" at Dec 19, 96 02:42:39 pm

Tony Li wrote:
> 
> 
>    The fact remains that a ping packet stream a Linux 386SX would barely
>    notice maxes out a 7010 (far more powerful CPU) 
> 
> Bzzzt.  That's a 30Mhz 68040 you're talking about.  You're 386SX is on par

BZZZZTTT.
	   a 386sx is worth about as much as a 68020
	   not a 68040.  a mac/se30 (68030) runs rings around a 386sx
	   try running NetBSD and each

	   get excellent scaling benchmark code from
	   ftp://ftp.scl.ameslab.gov/pub/HINT/
jmb

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