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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Quoting PC Magazine and much more(was Re: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems)
Message-ID: <3675@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 91 03:17:01 GMT
References: <40409@netnews.upenn.edu> <84050014@hpfcmdd.hp.com> <1991Apr9.213259.17287@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr10.000401.26196@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1991Apr10.000401.26196@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@e260-3e.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:

| I agree with you that PC Magazine can err every once in a while.  But I am
| familiar with that article and according to the article, the benchmark results
| were the average of previous machines reviewed by PC Magazine, discounting
| the very slow and very fast machines.

  And nebulous things like "bang for the buck" are cost performance
figures rather than performance alone. The MIPS/$ figure depends on what
benchmark you use, but they all run faster on the 486, given identical
support and peripherals.
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