Re: How are CPU Speed and Overall CPW Related?

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pat,

It is possible to have a single-user AS400, that is, an AS400 on which there
is only one user, with no spooling going on, no other communications going
on, is it not? All the things you ask should not be relevant if that was the
situation.

Btw, laptops do have spooling, communications for various devices (modem,
ethernet, etc), can handle multiple users (Georgia Softworks has a telnet
server for NT I've used), are keeping track of hardware & software interrups
and doing something about them when they happen, etc. And a laptop could run
5 simultaneous occurrences of the same program. I have to ask <G> -- are you
still running DOS on your laptop?

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax

> Ask yourself:
>
> Is your laptop running spooling ???
>
> Is your laptop running a very advanced security system ?
>
> Is your laptop running a full relational data base ?
>
> Is your laptop running communication support for various types of
> devices ?
>
> Is your laptop supporting multi-users all at once ?
>
> Is your laptop keeping track of hardware & software interrupts and doing
> somthing about it when it happens ?
>
> The list of "housekeeping" tasks is a lot longer but you get my point.
>
> To put it in even more perspective, let the 400 run the same job 5 times
> all at one time and try that with your laptop(which it can't do).
>
> There is simply no fair way to compare a Lotus to Hugo.....
>
> This isn't the answer you are looking for, but you are hunting a
> solution with no correct answer...
>
>
> > It takes 2095 MS to run the RPG code on my AS/400.  But it only takes
365 MS
> > to run the Foxpro code on my Laptop.  The Foxpro program offers 5.74
times
> > better performance.  But Foxpro is not faster than RPG.  The difference
is
> > in the computer hardware.
> >
> > My Laptop CPU offers a 330 Mhz clockspeed.  My AS/400 offers a 200 Mhz
> > clockspeed.  That explains a small part of Foxpro's superior
performance.  I
> > believe the more meaningful difference is that AS/400 CPU is not fully
> > utilized.
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