Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!biar!jhood
From: jhood@biar.UUCP (John Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: _UNIX_Today!_ hits a new benchmarking low
Message-ID: <854@biar.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 19:27:29 GMT
References: <16054@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> <123997@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: jhood@biar.UUCP (John Hood)
Organization: Biar Games Inc., Ithaca, NY
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In article <123997@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher@sun.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
>I too was astonished by what seemed to be a blatent ad for Bell Tech
>Unix (BTU) It seemed that the "reviewer" must have had old copies of
>ISC and Microport sitting around and used them for comparison with a
>brand new copy of Bell Tech.

Seems to me that the numbers for the other Unixes come from a
comparative review that I saw some while back in some other magazine.
I suspect that rather than rerun the benchmarks, the author pulled
some old numbers out of a dusty file.  I'm not impressed either.  No
matter how you slice it, the numbers are useless for comparing Bell
Tech's hardware or software against anything else.

  --jh

(bias note:  I'm not too impressed with either Bell Tech or UToday...)
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