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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
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Date: 28 Jun 89 16:37:08 GMT
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In-reply-to: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov's message of 28 Jun 89 03:22:42 GMT


>Okay, I will bite on this!  Here are elapsed times in seconds for
>the unpacking of a source archive on some representative machines.
>
>MACHINE and OS				TIME in SEC
>Cray YMP running NLTSS				40
>Cray XMP4/16 running LTSS			5
>SUN2/50 DISKLESS SUNOS 3.4			10.8
>SUN3/50 DISKLESS SUNOS 4.0.1			6.9
>SUN3 WITH DISK SUNOS 4.0.1			2.7
>
>Which is the mainframe? Which would you rather compile and load a program on?
>
>
>brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp

None of those are mainframes and this sort of statistic is useless
anyhow, put 16 of those jobs up at once and tell me what they're
getting as an aggregate and then perhaps we can talk.

I'm not even sure what your point is, and somehow doubt you read the
whole message stressing aggregate throughput, not single-stream.
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