[nylug-talk] Comparing RISC with CICS processor

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Gary Mort 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  :-))
This is 2007. Get with the program. Please explain the *business reason* 
behind replacing very old hardware with more very old hardware.

That being said, P4/1.6 will be probably 2-3 times faster (depending on 
the workload) than 450Mhz (whatever).

RISC/CISC distinction is sooo 1980s. Neither are really applicable in 
today's world.

-alex