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Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks

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From: Roger Tang
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:00
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In article <1993Jan5.161422.10231@lth.se> f88hv@efd.lth.se (Henrik Vallgren) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.224200.22219@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield) writes:
>>        "Recent Studies Reveal 25MHz Is Now Faster Than 50MHz"
>>"Ingram Benchmark Results, March 1992 - 25 and 33 MHz 040 Macintosh Quadra
>>Outruns the 486 at 33 and 50 MHz."
>>"This revelation is brought to you by the Apple Macintosh and the Motorola
>>68040."  The add goes on to say that Ingram Labs (an independent PC testing
>>firm) compared the newest 040 Macs (Quadra 950 and 700) to several of the
>
>First, about the "independent" firm: they we're hired by Apple right ?

	So?

	As a sometimes player in testing, if you allow your client to cook
the results or you do that yourself, you get a reputation.

	And with a reputation like that, you don't get jobs in the future.
-- 
Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu
Producer Emeritus, Asian Theatre at the UW, Uncle Bonsai Memorial Fan Club
	"The definition of balls is for a non-singer to go karaoke singing
with the cast of a musical revue."
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From: gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
Date: 5 Jan 1993 18:00:57 GMT
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