Yesterday, I tried to run the Byte Unix Benchmark on my Centris 650
(NetBSD 1.3, 68040 30 MHz, slow SCSI drive, 24 Mo).

The score I obtained was ... 1.0 ... which corresponds to
the score of a 360 SX 33 MHz under Linux :-( !

Even if raw CPU speed is better on my Mac (at least) the difference
is not really significant (an average of 1.2 vs 1.0 for the 386 Linux box).

How do you explain that a 68040 30 MHz is only slightly quicker
than a 386 33 MHz ?

By the way, I saw the results for a NextStep box with a 68040 (apparently
running at 25 MHz) and they were very close to those obtained on my machine
(except for disk io of course). As you would expect it, my Mac was slightly
faster in raw CPU (maybe by a factor of 30 / 25 ;-) !).

... polemic mode on ...

So, my question is, is Linux really quicker than NetBSD or are Intel
processors really quicker than Motorola's ones ?

... polemic mode off ...