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- From: richard@npri6.npri.com (Richard Head)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms,comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Digital News and Review's irresponsible attitude
- Message-ID: <6173@npri6.npri.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 15:32:40 GMT
- References: <6094@npri6.npri.com> <1309@niktow.canisius.edu> <6136@npri6.npri.com> <Bu9x7w.MpJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <6156@npri6.npri.com> <1992Sep12.055747.3847@spcvxb.spc.edu>
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- terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:
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- #In article <6156@npri6.npri.com>, richard@npri6.npri.com (Richard Head) writes:
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- #> Perhaps they are irrelevant to you. Believe it or not, some people
- #> (obviously not quite the established Computer Scientist you are)
- #> like to make comparison to a REFERENCE STANDARD (SPECmarks), so they can
- #> compare machines, regardless of vendor. How can they do this with MicroVUPs?
- #> (That's right, Einstein, tell me how many MicroVUPs an IBM RS6000 has!
- #> That's exactly the information I'm looking for!)
-
- # At the risk of actually adding some _content_ to this flamefest 8-), I am
- #interested in the performance of systems which run VMS because I want to buy
- #them (if they perform well) and run VMS on them. If VMS ever becomes avail-
- #able for the RS6000, then I'd be interested in knowing it's MicroVUP rating
- #(which I assume DR&N would gladly supply).
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- Even if they're is a MicroVUP rating, I wouldn't use it. The RS6000 and
- VAX architectures are such different animals, I consider the "MicroVUP"
- unit of measurement suspect when applied to this (or any foreign machine).
- It would be comparing apples and oranges. With SPECmarks, at least there
- is a common test suite used to derive the performance rating.
-
- # If that's the market that DR&N is catering to, then I can see why they use
- #the ratings that they do. There are some problems with the "VUP" rating sys-
- #tem in general (but that doesn't stop DEC from using it) and with "MicroVUPs"
- #in particular. ([...] deleted)
-
- I agree with all that, but at least the "VUP" wasn't invented as the
- result of mental masturbation by some editor at DR. "VUP" is more widely
- used than "MicroVUP". How many other publications besides DR use "MicroVUP"?
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- richard@npri6.npri.com <Richard Head>
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