Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #429
From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Tue, 14 Dec 93 23:13:10 EST

Linux-Misc Digest #429, Volume #1                Tue, 14 Dec 93 23:13:10 EST

Contents:
  Re: Linux counter: Usage growth of Linux (Mario Camou)
  Re: _Real_ hackers ... (Paul Tomblin)
  Re: Linux counter: Usage growth of Linux (Mario Camou)
  Does Linux run on Diamond Fastbus Motherboards???? (K. Hoogakker)
  Q: Internal modem and Linux (Svein Terland)
  Re: Printed LDP manuals? (was (Stephen Balbach)
  Re: Update on Linux International (RFD) (Matt Welsh)
  Looking for distribution (Mike McLagan)
  Re: _Real_ hackers ... (Brandon S. Allbery)
  Re: Xwindows Terminal (Bennett Todd)
  Re: Linux / DOS boot (sfuller@ins.infonet.net)
  Re: Q: Internal modem and Linux (NetDog)
  Re: Yet another benchmark results.. (Thomas Haywood)
  quota 1.2 compile bug patched (David Alan Black)
  Linux / DOS boot (Daniel F Dickinson)
  Re: quota 1.2 compile bug patched (David Alan Black)
  Re: Yet another benchmark results.. (Dragon Fly)

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From: camou@csid.gmeds.com (Mario Camou)
Subject: Re: Linux counter: Usage growth of Linux
Date: 14 Dec 1993 14:08:43 -0500

hohndel@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Dirk Hohndel) writes:
: Eckehard Stolz (stolz@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE) wrote:
: 
: : A comment I wanted to send from germany ! There are some people (Stefan Henze and
: : M. Mueller - sorry, I have the book at home) who published a "Linux
: : Anwenderhandbuch"

Is there a translation available in english? or perhaps spanish?

Thanx,
-- 
Mario Camou / EDS Mexico Client-Server Integration Team
From Mexico City, the smog capital of the world
==============================================================================
My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

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From: ab401@freenet.carleton.ca (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: _Real_ hackers ...
Reply-To: ab401@freenet.carleton.ca
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 19:15:03 GMT

doolitt@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (Larry Doolittle) writes:

>I sure hope someone is archiving this thread.

Why?  It's just a rehash of the same old boring "hacker-dick-size-wars" that 
take place on alt.folklore.computers and rec.humor about 8 times a year.

-- 
Paul Tomblin - Vicki Robinson's newsgroupie.

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From: camou@csid.gmeds.com (Mario Camou)
Subject: Re: Linux counter: Usage growth of Linux
Date: 14 Dec 1993 14:18:38 -0500

grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
: David Alan Black (dblack@pilot.njin.net) wrote:
: 
: : But it's an interesting question.  Not that this is a scientifically correct
: : way to conduct a survey, but....  have people had the experience of giving
: : Linux to non-internet-connected friends, and having them actually install
: : and use it?  Just curious.
: 
: I'm not connected to Internet and have installed and used two LGX
: Linux systems.  But, if I didn't have dial-up access to a friends
: account on an Internet-connected machine, I don't think I could have
: gotten things going.

I installed my first Linux system (SLS 1.03, kernel pl12) with no net
connectivity. A friend FTP'ed the disks and I installed them with no net
help whatsoever. However, I've had a couple of years experience with
Unix systems (from user, programmer and sysadm views) and several more
with PC's. I think a newcomer to Unix would have LOTS more problems.

Just my N$0.06 worth (N$ is for New Pesos)
-- 
Mario Camou / EDS Mexico Client-Server Integration Team
From Mexico City, the smog capital of the world
==============================================================================
My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

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From: hoogakke@dutian.twi.tudelft.nl (K. Hoogakker)
Subject: Does Linux run on Diamond Fastbus Motherboards????
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 15:51:40 GMT

The subject line says it all.
I know XFree is not supporting the Diamond Video Cards, but does it run
on other Diamond hardware (like motherboards)??

Kees
-- 
Drs. K. Hoogakker  (Kees)             | Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Technical University Delft            |      Down well trodden corridors
email: hoogakke@dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl |       Into the valley of steel
phone: +31-15-787181  (priv: 624161)  | Pink Floyd -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Animals

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From: terland@ugle.runit.sintef.no (Svein Terland)
Subject: Q: Internal modem and Linux
Date: 14 Dec 1993 20:55:18 GMT


This might be a silly question, but I couldn`t find an answer in the
FAQ`s. 

Will Linux (Slip, UUCP, etc) run OK with an internal modem? 
If so which device am I to use to get access to the modem?

By the way, what`s a good com-program for Linux. 

Thanks!

--

                               - Svein -

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Svein Terland                         +  The trouble with being  +
+ terland@idt.unit.no                   +  punctual is that people +
+ The Norwegian Institute of Technology +  think you have nothing  +
+ The University of Trondheim, Norway   +  more important to do.   +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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From: stephen@clark.net (Stephen Balbach)
Subject: Re: Printed LDP manuals? (was
Date: 14 Dec 1993 14:57:34 -0500


You can get a printed, covered and bound copy for $20 from:

Stephen Balbach
5437 Enberend Terrace  
Columbia, MD 21045
(410) 740-1157

send mail linux-all@clark.net for full packaging info

Stephen
-- 
Stephen Balbach . Clark Internet Services . Washington D.C./Balt. metro
area . mail all-info@clark.net . SLIP/PPP/UUCP/CSLIP . FAX 410-730-9765  
Linux on Disk . 32 disks $45 . linux-all@clark.net . voice 410-740-1157 
Time Card . Electronic Punch-Card System DOS . email  stephen@clark.net

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From: mdw@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Update on Linux International (RFD)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 20:57:23 GMT

This proposal seems to be misplaced. An adequate discussion period
should pass BEFORE any voting takes place. Only then can the goals of
Linux International be clearly refined and revised before people start
voting on a proposal that hasn't been discussed in open forum.

I suggest delaying the vote until people have had a chance to discuss
this matter. Linux International as proposed is really nothing like my
"proposal" for a Linux Foundation. Linux International is a non-profit
marketing organization, while LF was an entity, like the FSF, which
would take legal responsibility for Linux. Only the developers can
form an organization such as LF; anyone can (conceivably) form
something like Linux International.

My only question is this: Why do you NEED a formal organization in the
first place? It seems to me that it would be more appropriate, and
more in the keeping of the spirit of Linux, to simply form (initially,
at least) an informal group of volunteers to solicit donations and
promote Linux through advertising and the like. I'd be willing to help
with such an organization. But there's no reason, as with the case of
the LC, to be overly formal, at least so early on. Everything that
Linux International claims as its goals can be accomplished through a
small, informal group of vounteers (much like the LDP is now). If in
the future you want to incorporate yourself as an "official"
organization, that time will come. Whether or not you do so should be
based on your success in your initial goals---supporting Linux. 

The name should not preceed the effort. It should be the other way
around.

mdw
-- 
"Do you want to be Finnish? Sure, we all do!"

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From: mmclagan@work.invlogic.com (Mike McLagan)
Subject: Looking for distribution
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 18:39:12 GMT
Reply-To: mmclagan@invlogic.com

Hi,

   I've just joined this group, and I'd like to install Linux to gate to a
SLIP server and internet, onto our ethernet LAN.  I'm looking for a 
distribution that's current (14a-c?) and relatively easy to set up.  I don't
have access to internet(only this cheapy UUCP connection) to ftp the stuff 
from anywhere, so it's floppies, or a CD I can create floppy images from.

   Suggestions?  

   Mike was here...

P.S.  Please don't tell me to get the FAQ, I can't FTP it, and it's not in
our news base here...

--
// email   -> "Mike McLagan" <mmclagan@invlogic.com>
// UUCP    ->  ...uunet!invlogic!mmclagan
// snail   -> Innovative Logic Corp, P.O. Box 3247 Laurel, MD, USA 20709-3247
// ma bell -> (301)206-7692
// ILC doesn't like my opinions, so I'm giving them to you without consent!

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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: _Real_ hackers ...
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 22:24:07 GMT

In article <CI1Cwu.4IK@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, doolitt@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (Larry Doolittle) says:
+---------------
| In article <2eikok$o55@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU>,
| elan@tasha.cheme.cornell.edu (Elan Feingold) writes:
| > Real hackers debug by listening to the interferance generated by the
| > running microprocessor on their FM radio.
|                                   ^^^^^^^^
| You mean AM.  You don't get anything from FM radios.
+---------------

Tell that to my HT.  I get the weirdest set of beeps and boops and hums and
clicks on some frequencies with the radio within about 15 feet of a 386 or
better machine...

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery         kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org          bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development."  ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
Do not taunt Happy Fun Coder.   (seen on the Net...)

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From: bet@std.sbi.com (Bennett Todd)
Subject: Re: Xwindows Terminal
Date: 14 Dec 1993 17:37:47 GMT

In article <2e7t55$dpk@snoopy.cis.ufl.edu>, Kelly Murray <kem@prl.ufl.edu> wrote:
>Price out that Linux X-Terminal, and you will find that my company can
>sell you a real X Terminal for less (15" Color, $983), and you will
>avoid the hassle of trying to setup, configure, and maintain a diskless
>Linux box, and probably get better performance as well.

Sometimes the best solution is a really truly X terminal. I'm typing right
now on an NCD X terminal with a 19" 1280x1024 mono display, and I _love_ it.

Sometimes old Sun 3 desktop systems are essentially free, and they are the
ideal X terminals.

Sometimes old PCs are essentially free, and they can make adequate X
terminals. Linux is probably the most efficient way to make a PC run X. Of
course, if you want 1600x1200 non-interlaced at 72Hz, with a massively
accelerated smart frame buffer, you'll have to put a bunch of bucks into the
display subsystem. But you know, I think I'd rather have a plain old 800x600
dumb SVGA with a greyscale monitor, run by a 386SX-25 w/ 4M ram, than an
80x24 dumb terminal. And if you have used hardware lying around, that kind
of PC configuration is probably cheaper than a dumb terminal.

And let's not downplay the complexity of configuring an X terminal. At least
from NCD, you've got two choices. Either you've got no configuration
complexity, but you pay an extra $500 or so per terminal for the proms, and
you have X11R4, or you've got to use their diskless boot configuration where
a server downloads the X implementation into the terminal. Setting that up
is more complex than loading one the the Linux releases and configuring
XFree86.

So it isn't correct to say ``Linux completely obsoletes X terminals''. But
it also isn't always correct to say ``Linux as an X terminal is a dumb idea;
buy a real X terminal instead.''

-Bennett
bet@sbi.com

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From: sfuller@ins.infonet.net
Subject: Re: Linux / DOS boot
Date: 15 Dec 1993 00:12:40 GMT
Reply-To: sfuller@ins.infonet.net

You can't boot Linux from DOS. You have to use Lilo (a boot loader that comes
with both SLS and Slackware) and set it up to boot either DOS or Linux.


========================
Steve Fuller                    I will choose the path that's clear
sfuller@ins.infonet.net         I will choose freewill  -- N. Peart
InfoNet Beta Test Team

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From: cdent@yod.honors.indiana.edu (NetDog)
Subject: Re: Q: Internal modem and Linux
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 22:01:09 GMT

--){@ "Svein" == Svein Terland <terland@ugle.runit.sintef.no> writes:

    Svein> Will Linux (Slip, UUCP, etc) run OK with an internal modem?
    Svein> If so which device am I to use to get access to the modem?

It will run fine with an internal modem. Choose a com port setting on
the modem that does not conflict with your mouse (if it is serial) and
make sure you have no other devices which are occupying that com ports
IRQ.

The normal irq/com setup is like this (it can be changed):

com 1 and com 3 irq 4
com 2 and com 4 irq 3

this corresponds to linux devices of:

/dev/cua0  /dev/cua2  irq 4
/dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS2

/dev/cua1  /dev/cua3  irq 3
/dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS3 

I have two internal modems running: one on com4 (/dev/cua3) using irq
3 and one on com3 (/dev/cua2) using irq 5 (to avoid a conflict with my
mouse on com1 (/dev/ttyS0)). I use setserial (available on sunsite
pub/Linux/system/Serial) to change the irq of com3.

    Svein> By the way, what`s a good com-program for Linux.

I use kermit while not in X and Seyon in X.

Chris
--
"if you're so special why aren't you dead?" -The Breeders


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From: tommy@zikzak.apana.org.au (Thomas Haywood)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.vms,comp.benchmarks,relcom.t
Subject: Re: Yet another benchmark results..
Date: 15 Dec 1993 11:09:44 +1100


486-DX2 50MHz 8Mb RAM 256Kb cache
gcc compiler
1 user (not single mode)        -> 37s user  35.57s actual

In case this seems unbelievable (I couldn't believe it myself)
This what I did and the output.

redknobs:/root# gcc -O6 -m486 -o bench bench.c -lm
redknobs:/root# time bench
time=37
35.57user 0.53system 0:37.46elapsed 96%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
redknobs:/root#

It was swapping, cos I could hear it, nothing else was being done
while this was happening though.

I modified it to work under borlandc compiler (it won't let you more than 64k)
I changed the array to size 5000 and added a for i:1..200
It took 67 seconds.
-- 
Welcome to my new mail box...........
Tommy Haywood: tommy@zikzak.apana.org.au
2nd Year BCSE, Monash Uni/Clayton, Vic, Aus
Home: Wantirna Sth, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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From: dblack@pilot.njin.net (David Alan Black)
Subject: quota 1.2 compile bug patched
Date: 14 Dec 93 22:28:47 GMT

I got the following message when I tried to compile the sources for
version 1.2 of quota (made available recently on sunsite):

gcc -O6 -fexpensive-optimizations -fstrength-reduce    -c rquota_svc.c -o rquota_svc.o
rquota_svc.c: In function `main':
rquota_svc.c:205: too few arguments to function `svctcp_create'
make: *** [rquota_svc.o] Error 1

The problematic line was:

transp = svctcp_create(RPC_ANYSOCK);

Based on the 1.1. sources, I changed this to

transp = svctcp_create(RPC_ANYSOCK, 0, 0);

and it compiled.  (I still haven't tried out the program - I never did
get 1.1 to work....)


David Black
dblack@pilot.njin.net


        "NOW" "now" "NOW" "now"  -- Stewart Kirby and Damita Syn

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From: ddickins@herman.cs.uoguelph.ca (Daniel F Dickinson)
Subject: Linux / DOS boot
Date: 14 Dec 1993 22:23:33 GMT


I've tried using BOOTLIN to boot Linux using a CONFIG.SYS boot menu (from
DOS 6.0) and it complains that its loaded too high in memory (it is also
the only thing that I am trying to load in that configuration).  Anyone
got a solution (I don't really mind booting from a floppy but its a
non-ideal solution).  Please e-mail replies to ddickins@uoguelph.ca
 

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From: dblack@pilot.njin.net (David Alan Black)
Subject: Re: quota 1.2 compile bug patched
Date: 14 Dec 93 23:31:21 GMT

Addendum: I got the program to work!

David Black
dblack@pilot.njin.net


                        "Good idea."

                        - John Steed

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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.vms,comp.benchmarks,relcom.talk,relcom.fido.su.general
From: viznyuk@mps.ohio-state.edu (Dragon Fly)
Subject: Re: Yet another benchmark results..
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 01:40:35 GMT

Some new terrifying results from CRAY, IBM, HP, and AMD boxes
were added/corrected.

 - - - - - - - - Original code - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <math.h>
 #include <time.h>
 main()
 {
 double  x,y[1000000];
 int     i;
 time_t  t;
  
 time(&t);
 for (i=0;i<1000000;i++)
       {
       x=11.0+(33.5*i)*(33.5*i);
       y[i]=(sin(3.1*i)+cos(5.1*i))*sqrt(x+exp(3.14*log(x+i)));
       }
 printf("time=%d\n",time(0)-t);
 }
 - - - - - - - - - - - - Cut here - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 
      Computer                             Time spent
  
 60 MHz ALR Pentium Evolution              9 sec.
 QNX 4.2 with Watcom C v9.5
 cc -Otax -o bench bench.c -5 -Wc,-fp5 -N9000k

 486DX2-66 EISA/VL 16Mb RAM
 running Linux (Slackware 1.1.0).
 gcc -O3 -o bench bench.c -lm
 Single user in multiuser mode
 (9 processes altogether)                  27 sec.
 
 486DX2-66
 AMI Enterprise III VL/EISA m/b with 32MB ram
 Linux 0.99pl14
 gcc 2.4.5.
 Standalone machine.                       27 sec.

 486DX2-66 ISA/VL 16Mb RAM 256K Cache
 MS-DOS
 MicroWay NDPC 4.30 -n2 -n3 -OLM -exp      25 sec

 486DX2-66 ISA/VL 24Mb RAM
 running Linux pl99.14, Xfree2.0, fvwm
 gcc -O6 compiler.
 Multiuser mode/Single User                28 sec.

 486DX2-66 ISA/VL 32Mb RAM
 running NextStep 3.2
 gcc compiler.
 Multiple User                             32 sec.

 486DX2-66 VLB Clone, 16M, 256k cache      45 sec.
 running OS/2 2.1
 gcc -O2 -m486 yab.c -o yab.exe

 486DX2-66 EISA/VL 32 MB RAM,
 256k Cache (Gateway 2000)
 running SCO 3.2v4.2
 cc compiler (single user)                 45 sec.
 cc compiler (multi user)                  47 sec.
 gcc compiler (single & multi use)         44 sec.

 486DX-50 16MB Opti-Eisa-Chipset
 gcc -O2
 running Linux 0.99p13r                    36 sec.

 486DX2-50MHz 8Mb RAM 256Kb cache
 gcc compiler
 1 user (not single mode)                  36 sec.

 486DX-50 ISA 8Mb RAM, 256K cashe
 running Debian Linux 0.81BETA
 4  users                                  59 sec.
 single user                               54 sec.

 486DX-33
 64Kb read cache
 16 megs memory
 Single user, only program running.        53 sec.

 486DX-33                                  59 sec.
 running Linux (pl13 kernel)
 16MB RAM

 486DX-33 ISA 8Mb RAM
 running Linux
 Single user, but many Windows,
 Swapping heavily                          94 sec. real, 58 sec. CPU

 AMD386DX40      8Mb     64k cache         8149 sec.
 OS/2 2.1
 gcc -O2 -o bench.cc bench .exe
 CPU load 100%, Active task count 9

 Same machine (New motherboard):

 AMD486DX40      8Mb     256k Cache        51 sec.
 OS/2 2.1
 gcc -O2 -o bench.cc bench.exe
 CPU load 43%, Active task count 13

 AMD486DX40+10
 (ie overclocked to 50,
 with a heatsink and fan)
 AMD486DX50      8 Mb    256k Cache        41 sec.
 OS/2 2.1
 gcc -O2 -o bench.cc bench.exe
 CPU load 32%, Active task count 13

 386/387-40 ISA Clone, 8M, 64k cache       102 sec.
 running OS/2 2.1
 bcc -O2 yab.c

 SUN Sparc-10
 SunOS 4.1.3A                              30 sec.

 SUN Sparc-2 with >= 16 Mb RAM
 running SunOS
 Single user                               69 sec.
   
 SUN Sparc-IPX                             74 sec.

 SUN-4
 running SunOS
 Single user                               73 sec.
   
 VAX 3100/80
 running VMS
 Other users, but not much going on        182 sec.

 DEC VAX 6630
 running VMS                               79 sec.

 IBM RS6000/model 355
 running AIX 3.2.4
 xlc -O3 -lm, using time command           7 sec.

 IBM RS6000/model 375
 running AIX 3.2.4
 xlc -O3 -lm, using time command           5 sec.

 IBM RS6000/model 530
 running AIX 3.2.2
 RAM: 50mb
 single user                               13 sec.
   
 IBM RS6000/model 320
 running AIX 3.2.2
 RAM: 20mb
 single user                               16 sec.
   
 IBM RS6000/model 550
 running AIX 3.2.2
 RAM: 90mb
 single user                               7 sec.
  
 IBM RS6000 320
 running AIX 3.2.5
 Other users, but not much going on        18 sec.
 
 IBM RS6000 530
 running AIX 3.2.5
 Other users, but not much going on        13 sec.
  
 IBM PowerServer 520, 32 Mb RAM
 RS/6000 Chip
 running AIX 3.2.3e
 compilation in Background                 30 sec. real, 16 sec. CPU

 IBM PowerStation 320H, 32 Mb RAM
 RS/6000 Chip
 running AIX 3.2.3e
 single user                               12 sec. real, 12 sec. CPU

 IBM PowerServer 560, >32 Mb RAM
 RS/6000 Chip
 running AIX 3.2.5
 single user                               7 sec. real, 7 sec. CPU

 IBM 250 (the new PPC)                     13 (no optimization)
 AIX 3.2.5/X11R5                           10 (optimization on)
 64M ram

 HP Apollo
 running HP-UX 9.0                         16 sec.

 HP/PA 720 HPUX 9.01 64 Meg RAM            10 sec
 HP/PA 735 HPUX 9.01 64 Meg RAM            5 sec

 Hp-735 64 MB ram, pretty much idle,
 2 users HPUX 9.01                         4 sec.

 HP 755, 2Mbyte cache, 766 Mbytes Ram      4 sec.
 100 Mhz PA7100 processor
 Running HP-UX, 34 users, 0.2 load average
 HP C compiler: cc +O3 yab.c -o yab.out -lm

 HP-UX A.09.01 E 9000/755                  4 sec.
 several users but unloaded.
 average over 10 iterations

 SGI 4D/35TG (MIPS R3000 based) 48Mb RAM   21 sec.
 running Irix 4.0.5C
 Single user
 
 SGI Onyx/4 (4xR4400/150 MIPS CPUS)        10 sec.
 128 Mb RAM
 Single user
 
 SGI Indigo, 32 Mb RAM
 running IRIX 4.0.5.
 multiuser but idle
 cc -O2 bench.c -o bench -lm               10 sec.
 
 SGI - MIPS 4000-100 64 MB RAM
 running IRIX Release 4.0.5H
 cc compile (multi user)                   11 sec.

 DEC VAXstation 3100 M76
 16M RAM
 Running VMS 5.5-2
 DECWindows Motif
 Single User with 8 process                262 sec.

 DEC Alpha AXP 150Mhz
 OSF1 1.2
 Multiuser mode                            7 sec.

 DEC Alpha AXP 4000/610,
 128 MB RAM, 200 mips                      9 sec.
 cc -O2 -o bench bench.c -lm

 DEC 3000 Model 400
 Single user                               9 sec.

 DECPc AXP 150 (6.6ns pass 2.1 EV4), 32mb RAM
 OpenVMS AXP V2-FT3
 Single User, DECnet, Motif                11 sec.
 Single User, No DECnet, No Motif          10 sec.

 DEC 3000-400 (6.6ns pass 2.1 EV4) 128mb RAM
 OpenVMS AXP V1.5
 Single User, DECnet, Motif                9 sec.

 DEC 4000/710 with 256MB of memory.
 DEC OSF/1 1.3 12 users, load avg 1.0
 cc -O3 viz.c -lm -non_shared              6 sec.

 Cray Y-MP C90                             0.34 sec.

 - - - from another correspondent - - 
 I had to modify the code:
 
 double  x,*y;
 int     i;
  time_t  t;

 y = (double *) malloc (1000000 * sizeof(double));
 
 The DEC compiler didn't like the large array.
 
 DEC 5000/240 Ultrix 4.3 (load=0.11)        17 sec.
 
 DEC 5000/200 Ultrix 4.2 (load=0.00)        26 sec.
 
 SPARCstation 10/30 Solaris 2.2 (load=0.02) 47 sec.
 
 SPARCstation 10/42 Solaris 2.2 (load=0.20) 52 sec.

 
 - - - - - - from another correspondent - - - - - - - - - 
 
 I had to make the declaration of y global to prevent a segmentation
 violation on the DEC Alpha I ran it on.
 
 DEC 3000 Model 500                        6.7 s (avg. of 10 runs)
 DEC OSF/1 1.3
 Multi-user mode, one user logged in
 cc -O3 -o bench bench.c -lm -non_shared
 


 Serge

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