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From: ben@contact.uucp (Ben Eng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development.
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.190939.6393@contact.uucp>
Date: 16 Jan 91 19:09:39 GMT
References: <187e4f65.ARN097c@easy.hiam> <1991Jan09.153108.17485@convex.com> <17561@cbmvax.commodore.com> <242^HH|@rpi.edu> <17616@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In <17616@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>In article <242^HH|@rpi.edu> peck@ral.rpi.edu (Joseph Peck) writes:
>>In article <17561@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>>>Though maybe that helps explain RS6000 performance.

>>with 20 or so users on a base RS6000 it still seems awfully fast.....
>>even though lot's of I/O is going on. 

There is a comprehensive article titled "A Performance Comparison of
the IBM RS/6000 and the Astronautics ZS-1" by William Mangione-Smith,
Santosh G. Abraham, and Edward S. Davidson of the University of
Michigan in the January 1991 issue of _Computer_ from the IEEE
Computer Society.  The catch phrase is "application-specific
performance bounds for two superscalar machines, and the DECstation
3100, help explain actual delivered performance and indicate areas for
improvement."  It's a fairly technical article that might give some
insight into the RS/6000.

Ben
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