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In article <1992Nov12.143743.2517@sal.wisc.edu> alan@sal.wisc.edu (Alan Watson)  
writes:
> In article <1992Nov12.101520.2828@crl.dec.com> jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)  
writes:
> >In article <martin.721554717@bert>, martin@math.rwth-aachen.de (  Martin  
Schoenert) writes:
> >> [specs for US models]
> >> 
> >> In front of me I have  Digital Equiment Germany's announcement of the new
> >> systems for  ``Forschung und Lehre'' (research and education).   For  one
> >> thing it doesn't mention the first  three  models at  all.  Also it gives
> >> the following numbers
> >> 
> >> [specs for German models]
> >> 
> >> Any idea why the numbers are smaller?  (Is it  because we are ``Forschung
> >> und Lehre'', or is it because we are in Germany, or what? ;-)
> >
> >The reason is simple: folks were working on the compilers and remeasuring  
SPEC results
> >up until the last possible moment before annoucement.  Some earlier results
> >seem to have slipped through the cracks.  Of course, we continue to work
> >on the compilers, and yet better results can be expected in the future :-).
> >Significant improvements were made in even the last week (and weekend)  
before 
> >annoucement.
> 
> Nah, the real reason is that European computers run 16% slower because
> European power arrives at 50 Hz, as opposed to 60 Hz over here. 

But at 220 Volts vs. 110 in the US, we can execute two instructions
simultaneously ;-)

--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)

Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
          80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.