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From: LINDSAY@tl-20b.arpa
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Subject: re: Intel/Motorola wars
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Date: Sat, 30-Nov-85 16:42:22 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 30 16:42:22 1985
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To the person who said:

> Try opening your mind to something beyond Motorola hype.
> I wouldn't stoop to the level of character assasination to support a point.

Motorola hype !?!
Some of us wouldn't stoop to the level of Motorola assassination that Intel
practices in their ads and in their benchmarks. In fact, some of us are
damn irritated by Intel hype.

To make this note constructive: a short lesson in competitive benchmarking.
Suppose my product is five times faster on one benchmark, and five times
slower on another. One of Intel's answers: normalize and take arithmetic mean:
	
     Mine    Theirs
        1         5
        1        .2
                ---
           avg  2.6 times slower ! QED !



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