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From: gates@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bill Gates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re: 040 NeXT (was:Performance of HP/Apollo 9000/425t???)
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Date: 20 Dec 90 19:17:54 GMT
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>I guess a lot of people are interested in seeing those SPECmarks and comparing
>them too, including myself.  Unfortunately HP for some reason has not been 
>releasing any of those numbers despite the fact that they are a member 
>supporting SPEC's unified benchmarking effort.  Interesting indeed.

Not so interesting, I think.  The lateness and bugginess of 68040 parts has
delayed putting final hardware together and completing tuning efforts (this is
just a guess, but I think it has its basis in fact).  I don't think many
computer manufacturers are particularly anxious to release performance numbers
based on preliminary or untuned systems.

Bill

Disclaimer: this is my opinion only.  I speak only for myself and not for the
Hewlett-Packard company.