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- From: gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. Mac Benchmarks
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 18:00:57 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Message-ID: <1icicpINN2pc@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- References: <BzoBtM.6Jv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan5.115644.9215@uxmail.ust.hk> <1993Jan5.161422.10231@lth.se>
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- In article <1993Jan5.161422.10231@lth.se> f88hv@efd.lth.se (Henrik Vallgren) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.224200.22219@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> merrifie@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael C Merrifield) writes:
- >> "Recent Studies Reveal 25MHz Is Now Faster Than 50MHz"
- >>"Ingram Benchmark Results, March 1992 - 25 and 33 MHz 040 Macintosh Quadra
- >>Outruns the 486 at 33 and 50 MHz."
- >>"This revelation is brought to you by the Apple Macintosh and the Motorola
- >>68040." The add goes on to say that Ingram Labs (an independent PC testing
- >>firm) compared the newest 040 Macs (Quadra 950 and 700) to several of the
- >
- >First, about the "independent" firm: they we're hired by Apple right ?
-
- So?
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- As a sometimes player in testing, if you allow your client to cook
- the results or you do that yourself, you get a reputation.
-
- And with a reputation like that, you don't get jobs in the future.
- --
- Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu
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