uaf wrote:I'm pretty sure the Pentium 90 was the fastest processor at that time. Intel introduced the Pentium Pro family (to which the P200 belongs) in late 1995.
Yes, I'll assume that circa 1994 CG3 was running on the P90.
Any idea of the speed? I don't suppose anybody has a Pentium 90 laying around do they?
Don
This could be fun... I got REBEL 10 from this page and I'm now trying to get it to run in VMWare in order to compare with these benchmarks.
When did Rebel 10 come out?
I'm running CG3 in dosemu which is said to be native speed, but I'm going to check that out for sure.
1998 it seems. I only paid any attention to it because there's a Pentium 90 MHz benchmark for it.
VMWare is a pain in the ass to use with DOS, so I may try out Dosemu as well.
uaf wrote:I'm pretty sure the Pentium 90 was the fastest processor at that time. Intel introduced the Pentium Pro family (to which the P200 belongs) in late 1995.
Yes, I'll assume that circa 1994 CG3 was running on the P90.
Any idea of the speed? I don't suppose anybody has a Pentium 90 laying around do they?
Don
This could be fun... I got REBEL 10 from this page and I'm now trying to get it to run in VMWare in order to compare with these benchmarks.
When did Rebel 10 come out?
I'm running CG3 in dosemu which is said to be native speed, but I'm going to check that out for sure.
1998 it seems. I only paid any attention to it because there's a Pentium 90 MHz benchmark for it.
Hey, if there is a P90 benchmark then I can run the same benchmark and get a hardware reference.
I'll look for it and the benchmark but do you remember where to find it?
uaf wrote:I'm pretty sure the Pentium 90 was the fastest processor at that time. Intel introduced the Pentium Pro family (to which the P200 belongs) in late 1995.
Yes, I'll assume that circa 1994 CG3 was running on the P90.
Any idea of the speed? I don't suppose anybody has a Pentium 90 laying around do they?
Don
This could be fun... I got REBEL 10 from this page and I'm now trying to get it to run in VMWare in order to compare with these benchmarks.
When did Rebel 10 come out?
I'm running CG3 in dosemu which is said to be native speed, but I'm going to check that out for sure.
1998 it seems. I only paid any attention to it because there's a Pentium 90 MHz benchmark for it.
Hey, if there is a P90 benchmark then I can run the same benchmark and get a hardware reference.
I'll look for it and the benchmark but do you remember where to find it?
uaf wrote:I'm pretty sure the Pentium 90 was the fastest processor at that time. Intel introduced the Pentium Pro family (to which the P200 belongs) in late 1995.
Yes, I'll assume that circa 1994 CG3 was running on the P90.
Any idea of the speed? I don't suppose anybody has a Pentium 90 laying around do they?
Don
This could be fun... I got REBEL 10 from this page and I'm now trying to get it to run in VMWare in order to compare with these benchmarks.
When did Rebel 10 come out?
I'm running CG3 in dosemu which is said to be native speed, but I'm going to check that out for sure.
1998 it seems. I only paid any attention to it because there's a Pentium 90 MHz benchmark for it.
Hey, if there is a P90 benchmark then I can run the same benchmark and get a hardware reference.
I'll look for it and the benchmark but do you remember where to find it?
Don
It's the second link in my post!
I found the program, but there is not benchmark that I can see. Just a rating estimate. Also, this program only plays strong on Fridays. I can probably trick my computer into thinking it's friday for a benchmark but I still don't have a P90!
Don wrote:
I found the program, but there is not benchmark that I can see. Just a rating estimate. Also, this program only plays strong on Fridays. I can probably trick my computer into thinking it's friday for a benchmark but I still don't have a P90!
That was just a normal pentium, using the new manufacturing facility they had built. The P5/200 was way cheaper to build than the P6 architecture, and they were still addressing the el-cheapo end of the market as well as the server market where the P6/200 was king.
I read on the web somewhere that someone can do 1 million superpi digits in about 12 seconds. The same person said that the same calculation on a P90 Satellite pro 410cs takes 32 minutes. That is a speedup of only about 160.
As I said, different benchmarks produce different results. If you use a memory intensive application, and that one must be, the speed of memory has not improved drastically over the past 20 years, while cache and processors have speeded up greatly...
Usually on a laptop things are 20 or 30% slower for the laptop version of the same chip. For example my laptop core 2 duo is about 30% slower than my desktop core 2 duo (but the laptop is clocked slower and this is not the case for the p90 notebook. But there are still usually some bus issues and such than makes laptops a little bit slower.
Also, superpi is not chess so chess could be faster or slower. But it is some indication that the P90 is not 1000x slower. That's why I want to find out for sure with a real chess benchmark.
btw, I have a 266mhz P2 that should be coming out of active use in the next few months I could probably dedicate to running games if wanted. Also I think I may have a pentium 90mhz sitting around that just might still boot up.
Janzert
Those are beyond screwed up. They have different release dates for the same processor. Search for "Pentium Pro". was it 1995 or 1997? Couldn't be both. I know we got our first one in 1996, here. Fairly early in the year but I am not sure exactly when, now. I used one in the 1996 WMCCC event for sure.
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