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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms,comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Digital News and Review's irresponsible attitude
- Message-ID: <1309@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 03:40:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.160634.24548@socrates.umd.edu> <6094@npri6.npri.com>
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- In article <6094@npri6.npri.com>, richard@npri6.npri.com (Richard Head) writes:
- > jms@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem) writes:
- >
- > The only possible good thing I can think of that may arise from this
- > transition is if Digital Review would only stop using the brain-dead
- > term "MicroVUPs". Use VUPs of SPECmarks or whatever. The use of
- > MicroVUPs was (I think) started and propagated by Digital Review, and
- > as far as I can tell, they are the only ones that use it.
- > --
-
- From my point of view, Digital Review has for some years made a serious
- attempt to evaluate cpu/floating point/(and more recently)graphics perfor-
- mance on a wide variety of machines. They have also attempted to separately
- evaluate i/o performance on different DEC-compatible disk/controller combin-
- ations. So what's the big deal about the units they use ? "Brain dead" ?
- What is a "VUP" anyway ? For a long time, the uVAX II had the largest in-
- stalled base of any VAX. It made good sense to state relative performance
- in uVAX terms. Continuing to use it as a unit is no more irrational than
- using the VAX 780 (in VUPS and SPECmarks). Digital Review gives the SPEC-
- marks for the systems they review as well. Should they rerun them ???
-
- greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
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