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- From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
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- Subject: Re: i860 Paragon XP/S Fastest Computer of all??!!
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:33:23 GMT
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- Bill Williams: What? Do you make a commision on Intel supercomputers
- or something? Yes, it may have the fasttxxx fastest score for math, buth
- there are other things that computers do. Lastly, I can't believe
- you even quoted us a MIPS number. Are you in marketing? MIPS are like saying
- "My car goes 5,000 gloks and hour!" Well, how big is your cars glok?
- No, I'm not saying that the Intel i860 isn't s fast, but FLOPs and
- MIPS aren't the only things machines do. How about memory reads/writes,
- context switching, vector processing, or string processing?
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