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From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
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Subject: Re: NeXTStation Benchmark
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Date: 15 Nov 90 19:51:04 GMT
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In the pursuit of truth, this just in: 
running my trivial benchmark program (multiply 1.00001 upon itself
10^6 times, in C) using csh instead of ksh on the RS/6000:

IBM RS/6000 (csh, not ksh!)

   3.7 MFLOPS  (10% faster than under ksh)


This gives IBM a 10% lead on the 3.3 MFLOP NeXTStation. Jeez, this
is getting complicated :-).

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Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)