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- From: morse@quark.mpr.ca (Daryl Morse)
- Subject: Re: FTPable Performance Results
- In-Reply-To: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu's message of 12 Jan 93 05:05:54 GMT
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 08:47:33
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- In article <1954@niktow.canisius.edu> pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:
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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
- Date: 12 Jan 93 05:05:54 GMT
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- In article <C0Lxqx.6p7.1@cs.cmu.edu>, vac+@cs.cmu.edu (Vincent Cate) writes:
- >
- > On gatekeeper.dec.com in DEC/DECinfo/performance-summary there are some
- > performance summary papers. The following two papers are dated
- > Nov 20 1992 and seem to have current HP, Sun, and RS-6000 machines as
- > of that time:
- >
- > Do these papers in fact have the latest machines from the other vendors?
- >
- > "Results" for the newest HP machines are incomplete, probably because they
- > were unavailable at the time.
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- > SGI/MIPS was totally ignored. Given DEC's virtual abandonment of its
- > MIPS-based line, my suspicion is that this was not simply an oversight.
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- Look again, there are some SPEC and X11Perf numbers for SGI boxes,
- though not that many. As for why non-Mips platforms received more
- attention in the summary, I really don't think it's "symbolic proof"
- that DEC is dumping the DECstation line so much as a reflection of
- where Mips-based platforms are in the current market (i.e., not really
- anywhere). Sun, HP, and IBM are DEC's competition and rightfully
- should be the focus of any useful comparision.
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