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From: cmaz514@ut-emx.uucp (Raghu Ramachandran)
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Subject: Re: Benchmarks comparing NeXT, Sparc, 80386, Mac
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Date: 1 Apr 91 16:57:45 GMT
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In article <1991Apr1.001408@ece.arizona.edu> dan@ece.arizona.edu (Dan Filiberti) writes:
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>I just glanced through the new edition of NextWorld mag...
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>It has benchmark tests for Next, Sparcstation 2, and Mac IIfx in a comparison
>article...take a look :)
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>		Daniel Filiberti
>		dan@ece.arizona.edu [:)}

Did anyone else notice that in Table 1 the IIfx has a '030 processor, but in
Table 2 the benchmarks were compiled using the '020 option!  The co-processor
was also steped down.  

I wouldn't trade my NeXT for a Mac, but this kind of "reporting" doesn't help
Nextworld nor NeXT.

Just my $0.02.

Raghu