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From: maf@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mark Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: Price/Performance figures for Number-Crunching
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Date: 5 Apr 91 00:23:33 GMT
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>It is good to know that HP has developed absolute performance metrics.
>Could you tells us more about them?
>
>-- Jon

The point was not that there is a better number to compare, only that a low
variance on SPEC  only means "as balanced as a VAX was" and not "more balanced 
performance".

- mark