Re: Debate: PowerMac

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From: Harlan W. Stockman
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 00:17

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marlin@bga.com (Marlin Frederick, Jr.) wrote:
>ejohnso2@swarthmore.edu (Ellen S. Johnson) wrote:
>>
>>SPECint92:  approximately 200    SPECint92:  approximately 133
>>SPECfp92:   approximately 200    SPECfp92:   approximately 105
>>

>performance.  Intel is famous for its Intel Xpress Box.  This is nothing but
>a bogus system designed to maximize the Intel performance numbers for Spec
>marks.  Really there is a third flaw.  Very few developers do as good a job
>optimizing thier software for the hardware as the people running these Spec
>test do.

And IBM (Apply by proxy) is famous for quoting calculated SPECint on 
hypothetical systems with 2 MB L2 cache with no wait states.  

I'd bet that many inexpensive commercial Pentium systems, based on the 
Triton chip set and pipeline burst cache and EDO RAM, can now best the 
performance of the Intel Xpress box.

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac
Date: 4 Sep 1995 00:17:25 GMT
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