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From: ben@val.com (Ben Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Why buy a DX over an SX?
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.204600.15805@val.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 20:46:00 GMT
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c60b-1eq@e260-3e.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:

>First of all--don't post Norton SI results as serious statistics.  Norton SI
>is a very vague measurement of overall system performance, not the CPU's
>performance.

It is also misleading to consider only raw CPU performance.  After
all it is the system as a whole that matters when you shop for a machine.
Norton's SI is just a number, but is is the only measurement of overall
performance that is popular enough to have statistical significance.


>+==========================================================================+
>| Noam Mendelson   ..!agate!ucbvax!web!c60b-1eq | "I haven't lost my mind, |
>| c60b-1eq@web.Berkeley.EDU                     |  it's backed up on tape  |
>| University of California at Berkeley          |  somewhere."             |
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