This gave access to MS-DOS and enabled the first tests, followed by benchmarking. Benchmarking MS-DOS on a system this fast turned out to be somewhat messy with puzzling results.

When MS-DOS 5.0 launched in 1991, the computing world looked vastly different from today. A typical PC might include a 286 or 386 processor, a mere 4MB of RAM was considered wildly generous, and ...