[nylug-talk] Comparing RISC with CICS processor

[Michael B Allen]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:52:09 -0500
Gary Mort <gmlug at saplings.us> wrote:

> Just curious if there is a good back of the envelope conversion to 
> compare a RISC based system with an Intel or AMD based system.
> 
> Like going from a 450MHz RISC processor to a 1.6G Intell Pentium, or 
> vice versa.
> 
> I'm looking to make comparisons on OLD hardware(replacing one cruddy 
> system with another cruddy system  :-))

It is interesting to note that modern Intel based processors are in fact
RISC cores with extra hardware at the edge to make them look like Intel.

Mike

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