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- From: richard@npri6.npri.com (Richard Head)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Digital News and Review's irresponsible attitude
- Message-ID: <6175@npri6.npri.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 15:53:44 GMT
- References: <01GOPGZXNVNI91WH53@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA
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- GREG@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU (Tigger) writes:
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-
- #So what? You can quote SPECmarks all day long, and it still won't mean
- #anything to me if you're trying to compare a DOS machine to a VAX 6000.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This is a joke, right?
-
- #And it won't have any relevance to the kind of work I do with either machine?
- #I have a little C program that calculates pi to ten thousand decimal places
-
- I just don't understand. America has the best minds in the world trying
- to solve this mathematical problem, and there you are the whole time,
- way out ahead of everyone! And I really put a lot of faith in that "PI"
- test suite too. Darn.
-
- #Benchmarks are *USELESS*.
- #Benchmarks are *USELESS*.
- #Benchmarks are *USELESS*.
- #Benchmarks are *USELESS*.
- #Benchmarks are *USELESS*.
- #Benchmarks are *USELESS*.
- #Benchmarks are *USELESS*.
-
- #--
- #Greg Orman greg@pomona.claremont.edu
- #Systems Manager greg@pomona.bitnet
- #Seaver Academic Computing Services
- #Pomona College Standard disclaimer-type stuff
- --
- richard@npri6.npri.com <Richard Head>
-