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Re: Dhrystones

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From: tuba
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1987 06:27
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In article <1258@husc6.UUCP> reiter@harvard.UUCP (Ehud Reiter) writes:
>...as a user who seems to spend most of his time doing word processing these
>days, I might well prefer a "1 MIPS" box which could run RUNOFF and EVE to
>a "3 MIPS" box which ran NROFF and EMACS.

Prefer to use...or prefer to pay for?  Following your suggestion,
performance may be measured as formatted pages of text per second.
Thus price / performance will be expressed as dollars per pages per
second, or dollars per page-second.  If cost is a consideration,
prefer the lowest dollars per page-second.

					jon

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Jon Krueger   Department of Necessary Evil   University of Rochester
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Subject: Re: Dhrystones
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Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 01:27:45 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 22 01:27:45 1987
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Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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Keywords: performance measurement