Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:56 PM,  <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
>> Totally amazed by the things which were "brandnew" those days
>> (1985/1995) and are outclassed by any digital whristwatch nowadays I
>> became curious about a more exact definition of "faster" in this
>> area...
>
> If you like reading about old and interesting processors, you may
> enjoy this site:
>
> http://jbayko.sasktelwebsite.net/cpu.html
>

And here are benchmarks of some really old systems compared to newer:

http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/whetstone.htm

As will all benchmarks, the usual disclaimer that benchmarks are all
flawed, etc. :)