Re: Debate: PowerMac

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From: Alan Lovejoy
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 04:46

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In <42dgil$1o6@sloth.swcp.com> "Harlan W. Stockman" <hwstock@swcp.com>
writes: 
>
>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.
>


As soon as they do, I'm sure Intel will stop quoting results from the
XPress on its WWW site :-)

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Date: 4 Sep 1995 04:46:04 GMT
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