Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!canisius!pavlov From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks: RS6000 v. SS-1+ Message-ID: <3169@canisius.UUCP> Date: 3 Feb 91 06:42:51 GMT References: <1991Jan30.003004.74@intek01.uucp> Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208 Lines: 14 In article <1991Jan30.003004.74@intek01.uucp>, mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins) writes: > The most recent version of Unix Review contains a rather flamish > letter from someone who claims that his RS6000's don't perform > appreciably better in the application they're running than do > SparcStation 1+'s, and are much harder to port software to, as well. > "flamish" = what he said | how he said it ? - he's not the only one who has come to this conclusion. See comp.arch, among others - greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org