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Article #1376Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
From: Roger Tang
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:00
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!uw-beaver!news.u.washington.edu!carson.u.washington.edu!gwangung 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 Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1icicpINN2pc@shelley.u.washington.edu> References: <BzoBtM.6Jv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan5.115644.9215@uxmail.ust.hk> <1993Jan5.161422.10231@lth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu