Curt Sampson wrote:

> I find it a bit odd that the PWS-433A has considerably faster memory
> than a PC164. Or is the PWS-433A using a different sort of memory
> subsystem?

There was a short thread called "PC164 memory bus speeed" around August
year where I had the same concerns about the ``slowness'' of a pc164.
There was no answer on the (lack of) memory speed performance.  Here's
part of my lmbench summary:

*Local* Communication bandwidths in MB/s - bigger is better
-----------------------------------------------------------
Host                OS  Pipe AF    TCP  File   Mmap  Bcopy  Bcopy  Mem   Mem
                             UNIX      reread reread (libc) (hand) read write
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ---- -----
i386-netb  NetBSD 1.4.1   39   39   36     29    201     92     68  201    92
alpha-net   NetBSD 1.4J   93  103          92    148     79     77  149   129
alpha-dec     OSF1 T5.0  411  366         438   1158    527    293 1153   486

The first is my _old_ DEC Prioris PPro 166 (to show that DEC sometimes
got memory bandwidth right in the past), the middle is a PC164 (whose
number match up with hbench) and the last is a DS20 (to show that they
still can sometimes get memory bandwidth right ;).

Simon.