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From: tinyguy@cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE)
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Subject: Re: Why buy a DX over an SX?
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Date: 11 Apr 91 13:36:15 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.160439.17824@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>
>Using SI to evaluate the performance of a computer is like using gas
>mileage to evaluate the performance of a car!
>
>Pete
>-- 


What exactly is a Landmark? It's probably another stupid meaningless
performance measurer, but it seems to give much favour to 486 machines
(relative to 386).



-TG