Are there any redeeming qualities of a 3B5/3B15?

[Stephen J. Friedl]

Hi folks,

     We have a customer with a 3B15 running Sys V Release 3.1,
and we generally like it a lot (I develop on it about half-time)
However, my Everex STEP/25 80385 machine beats the 3B15 for every
benchmark I can find, and this surprises me.  While certainly a
25MHz 80386 with a good cache will beat it for CPU-bound tasks, I
find that an ESDI drive on the 386 beats the SMD drive on the
3B15.  I suspect that while the SMD interface has much higher
bandwidth, the 14MHz WE32100 CPU just can't push it fast enough.

     Does anybody know of things where a 3B15 will beat an
80386 machine (or a 3B2/600 for that matter)?  I would really
like to avoid AT&T bashing here, but real experience is welcome
no matter how brutal.

     Please email, I'll summarize and post, etc.

     Thanks much,
     Steve

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