Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware

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From: Lawson English
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 16:51

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Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
[snipt]
: As usual, you're wrong.  If you want to buy a machine to run a single
: app, you can benchmark that app and decide which machine is better.
: If you want to buy a general purpose machine, SPEC is your best way to
: compare the relative performances.  At least, this is the industry
: consensus.  Of course, you know better.

I've never heard the "industry" say that. In fact, most hardware design 
texts suggest otherwise.


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