On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:27:53PM +0200, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
> } > What's the difference with Q40 ?
> }
> } Not much else, just a bit faster. Mine shows about 134 BogoMIPS.
>
> With or without cache ? (w/ : which mode ?)
it is bogomips test in Linux, usefull only for calibrating delay loops.
Fast enough for most applications, even compiling linux 2.4 kernels
works.
> Have you tried dhrystone on it ? (which compilation ?)
>
> My main interest on the Q40/Q60 is the speed of the boot, vs the slowness of
> the PC (The Bios boot is far too long for me, so even adding the shortest linux
>boot, I find the PC computer to be too slow... at least at boot time; even with a
>x-GHz thing )
> When I boot the Q40, it's just: press the button, take a seat and it's ready
> to read the latest floppy from QLToday.
it boots pretty fast, it can't get any faster because the IDE disks need
some seconds to spin up and there are still people with rather old disks
around. It is possible to patch the ROM to wait shorter for modern drives.
Bye
Richard
