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From: mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark A. Mitchell  GTRI/STL/MSD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 486/25 Power Platform for PS/2 70-A21
Keywords: Intel 80486, PS/2 70, AIX, cost
Message-ID: <991@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 12 Jul 89 13:03:07 GMT
References: <19000@gatech.edu>
Reply-To: mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark A. Mitchell  GTRI/STL/MSD)
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In article <19000@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried III) writes:
>I have a little bit of marketing info on this product, and I have a
>few questions:
>
>What will it cost and when will it ship?
>
According to PC Week, $3995 and by the end of the year.

>What kind of real-world performace will you gain from a 486/25 over a
>386/25 (marketing rubbish claims 80% on 'buisiness applications' 
>(whatever they are) and 4 times better on 'compute intensive applications' 
>(whatever they are))
>
PC Week's tests of the "Power Platform" (that's what IBM calls it) included
a CPU sort and an unspecified Floating Point test.  The time in seconds
for three machines:
				CPU sort		Floating Point
	IBM Model 70 A21       	6.1			5.2
	Compaq 386/33 MHz	4.7			3.5
	IBM 486 PP		3.2			2.3

So it looks about 2 times as fast.  

>If it delivers what they claim, might actually be a reason to buy a
>PS/2-70 (heaven forbid...;').
>

-- 
Mark A. Mitchell  GTRI/STL/MSD
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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