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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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Subject: Re: Re: Floating point performance & Mr. Mashey's Mythical Mhz
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 19:46:49 EST
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>> Comments? What sorts of metrics are important to the people who read
>> this newsgroup? What kinds of constraints?  How do you buy machines?
>> If you buy CPU chips, how do you decide what to pick?
>
>The metrics I'm interested in measure speed.  (Basically, I'm hooked
>on fast machines.)  Other constraints are less interesting because:
>(1) I will buy the fastest machine I can afford, and (2) in terms of
>architecture, speed is the bottom line -- all else is just
>mitigating circumstances.

I must disagree.  Reliability is at least as important as speed.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108