Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!convex!tighe From: tighe@convex.com (Mike Tighe) Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks Subject: Re: IBM 6000 vs HP 9000 series 700 Keywords: Dvorak Chang Message-ID: <1991Jun26.200919.22023@convex.com> Date: 26 Jun 91 20:09:19 GMT References: <1991Jun25.160925.53455@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1991Jun25.214124.29573@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <1991Jun26.191020.26093@cs.utk.edu> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: hydra.convex.com In article <1991Jun26.191020.26093@cs.utk.edu> Dave Sill writes: >In article <1991Jun25.214124.29573@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>, dave@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Dave Weintraub) writes: >> >>Beware of HP's claims. Their machine is *hot*, but they tend >>to be into hyperboil (?sp). See Dvorak's column in PC Magazine, >>where he reports HP's claims of a 720 vs a Cray, and interprets these >>with a wise ton of salt. > >It's clear from this column# that Dvorak doesn't know his asymptote >from a hole-in-the-graph when it comes to benchmarks. Come now. Mr. Dvorak's comments are not even worthy of comment. But since you opened the box... I mean, this is the same guy who a few years back touted the infamous "Chang Modification", and how it could turn your 6 Mhz 80286 into a 40 Mhz scream machine, for about $10. After all he saw the benchmark results, and the Sieve of Eratosthenes benchmark doesn't lie... Almost as stupid as Peter Norton's claim that Topview, was "a significant new product, and would change the way we use personal computers." -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tighe, Internet: tighe@convex.com, Voice: (214) 497-4206 -------------------------------------------------------------