Re: More on Byte Benchmarks

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From: Radford Neal
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1987 21:38

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In article <170@lakesys.UUCP>, steven@lakesys.UUCP (Steven Goodman) writes:

> The 68881 was trimmed down to about 8Mhz in order to have it a valid 
> comparison seeing as the 80287 ran at 8Mhz...

> 	What it comes down to is Intel has FINALLY made a good chip, it
> DOES outperform the 68020 at equal clock speed...

This is ridiculous. Do you think that users get a nice warm feeling from
knowing their chip is getting "more for the megahertz" than the next
guy's? Would you buy a $10000 Intel machine that ran at 8MHz in preference
to a $10000 Motorola machine that ran at 24MHz, just because the Intel
machine does more per cycle? Crippling one machine to make a "fair" 
comparison does not help answer the real question - "Which machine should
I buy (for my application)?".

    Radford Neal

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From: radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal)
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Subject: Re: More on Byte Benchmarks
Message-ID: <1048@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 17:38:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 17:38:04 1987
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Summary: Talk about unfair comparisons!

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