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From: jqj@gvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: IBM PS/2 benchmarks?
Message-ID: <813@gvax.cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 15:31:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 13 15:31:20 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Apr-87 00:38:08 EST
Reply-To: jqj@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (J Q Johnson)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
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I just spent more than an hour wading through all the recent messages on this
newsgroup about the new IBM product announcements.  Noticeably lacking was
any (much) content.  Except for a couple of messages, I learned nothing that
I didn't already know from reading the trade press.

Please, does ANYONE who has played with these new machines have any hard
performance data apart from the stupid Norton SI benchmark?  In particular,
can anyone confirm or deny the IBM claims that the new bus structure and
disk interleave provide dramatic performance improvements over, say, a
carefully tuned clone?  If the IBM claims are correct, the new bus technology
could be the one major advantage the new machines have over the current crop
of clones.