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- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest computer
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.221103.13995@ksmith.uucp>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 22:11:03 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.165950.15013@webo.dg.com>
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- In article <1992Dec18.165950.15013@webo.dg.com> lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com writes:
- >IBM is currently running full-page Ads that claim "The AS/400
- >is the world's most powerfull computer with the industry's best
- >price/performance(*)"
- >
- >"(*) According to the TPC-C benchmark results published through
- > 12/3/92"
- >
-
- Yea, I laughed so hard my sides ached!
-
- >IBM does not point out the the AS/400 is the only computer with
- >TPC-C results published as of 12/3/93. The AS/400 is also the
- >world's slowest and most expensive computer by the same benchmark.
-
- Dog slow. But to the people who buy them they don't care. The fact is
- the AS/400 runs their apps that they have ported up from S/3 cards for
- the last 20 years, and they are too lazy to try something different, so
- they pay, and pay, and pay....
-
- >
- >Do people fall for this stuff? IBM claims that the AS/400 is the
- >best selling mid-range system in the world, so someone must fall
- >for it.
-
- Compile time for a 1000+ line program on a 486/33 w/8MB RAM using UNIBOL
- RPG was about 8 times faster than an AS/400 B20 with 8MB RAM. Seconds
- as opposed to minutes. Again, IBM will hold your ignorant MIS
- departments hands from purchase, to setup to delivery. All they'll have
- to is write even more indicator mad code that takes forever to run, that
- will of course require an even bigger AS/400 (or perhaps a 486/33 with a
- better compiler ...)
-
- If you own one, pray no one nukes the New England plant where all 100 or
- so people that know AS/400 internals work.
-
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