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From: alan@mq.UUCP (Alan H. Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Whets.C benchmark VMS vs UNIX
Summary: Summary
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Date: 8 Sep 90 00:52:28 GMT
References: <53@mq.UUCP> <13310052@acf4.NYU.EDU>
Organization: Micro-Quick Systems, Inc.
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In response to an article I posted wrt benchmark result diffs between a
MV3100 and 386 UNIX, 

In article <13310052@acf4.NYU.EDU>, tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor) writes:
> General explainations that leap to mind are (a) benchmarks of this sort
> are pretty bogus, consider the SPEC suite instead; (b) DEC builds better I/O
> systems that most microvendors.

This is pretty much the consensus of the reponses I got. It does confirm 
what I have been told from the DECies, as opposed to PCers that indicated
that the 386 should perform better.

Are the SPECmarks commercial, or are they available electronically (free) ?
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