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From: andreess@mrlaxa.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: Re: Here is a tiny OS benchmark
Keywords: Meaninglessness, triviality
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.083301.28886@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 91 08:33:01 GMT
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In article <1991Apr20.001049.6681@mstr.hgc.edu> rhb@mstr.hgc.edu (Roger H. Brown) writes:
>In article <3630@dagobah.UUCP> mis@Seiden.com (Mark Seiden) writes:
>>de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) and mac@gold.kpc.com (Mike McNamara) and hawkes@mips.com (John Hawkes) write:
[... lots of meaningless numbers ...]

Maybe it's just lack of sleep, but it seems to me that this newsgroup,
which I've been reading since its formation, spends about 95% of its time
spewing out a plethora of meaningless numbers on meaningless and trivial
little pseudo-hacks which don't deserve to be called benchmarks by any
stretch of the imagination.  Remember 'bc'?  And now this...

These numbers are useless.

Marc

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