Is this a reasonable platform for SCO Unix?

[Ray Shwake]

mikes at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires) writes:

>A 486/25 under SCO ODT 1.0 clocked at 21K 1.1 Dhrystones/sec; the same code
>compiled on a SPARCStation-1 clocked at the same, 21K/sec.  A very short
>loop running under the elk 1.3 SCHEME interpreter showed nearly identical
>wall clock times running on a SPARCStation 1+ and the same 486/25 (if anyone
>wants to play with SCHEME elk 1.3 has 386 UNIX support and compiles without
>signficant changes using Microsoft C).

	Great. You've shown that a 486/25 can run Dhrystones and short loops
under elk as well as a SparcStation 1+. Is *that* what you do all day? Has it
occurred to you that these tests, and others of their ilk, provide only the
crudest indication of relative performance? Well, consider it. How tragic
that, as hardware, operating environments and applications have become more
sophisticated, people still give credence to such quick-and-dirty measurements.

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