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Article #1980Re: Debate: PowerMac
From: Jeff Rugen
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 14:27
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 14:27
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Harlan W. Stockman (hwstock@swcp.com) wrote: : 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. Heh - you think if they'd done that, someone would have bragged about it by now. Go back to sleep. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Rugen __ __ ____ ___ ___ ____ jrugen@primenet.com /__)/__) / / / / /_ /\ / /_ / Motorola GSTG / / \ / / / / /__ / \/ /___ / -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntpdist.primenet.com!jrugen From: jrugen@primenet.com (Jeff Rugen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Date: 5 Sep 1995 14:27:41 GMT Organization: PrimeNet Message-ID: <42hmot$cr1@nnrp1.primenet.com> References: <42d6qa$4c0@giga.bga.com> <42dgil$1p2@sloth.swcp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: usr2.primenet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]