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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by guenthert on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:07PM (#23654283)
Not sure whether you're confusing some OS or application performance with the performance of the CPU or are misremembering. A 8MHz ARM2 performed at about 5MIPS. That was impressive in '87, but in '90 my 20MHz 80386 ran at about 6MIPS. The 486DX100 of the mid nineties was much faster.
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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by m0xte on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:18PM (#23655180)
Possibly in terms of feel. They really ran a pile of crap on a 486DX100 in comparison. The RISC OS machines of the early 1990s had a similar feel to a modern PC on the performance front with every-day tasks.
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