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From: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 benchmarks?
Message-ID: <1197@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 14:39:14 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.1197
Posted: Fri Apr 17 14:39:14 1987
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References: <813@gvax.cs.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: akk2@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Atul Kacker)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <813@gvax.cs.cornell.edu> jqj@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (J Q Johnson) writes:
>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.

Our local IBM office is having a PC Fair on campus here and will be
demonstrating the MODEL 30, MODEL 50, MODEL 60. I will be running some
benchmarks (Dhrystones, Whetstone, PC Magazine series etc.) on them and
will post the results here sometime at the end of next week.




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