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From: msf@amelia (Michael S. Fischbein)
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Subject: Re: Byte benchmark articles (Re: Mac C Compilers)
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 19:47:44 EDT
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In article <13885@topaz.rutgers.edu> rhsu@topaz.rutgers.edu (Robert Hsu) writes:

Stuff elided concerning Byte's alledged bias, IBM bashing, etc.

>	I also question their using such a strange configuration (a
>Mac SE with an accelerator board) for comparison.  The Compaq is the
>top of the line 386 machine available today, so why not get a top of
>the line 68020 machine?  Why not a Sun/3, Apollo, or even an NCR Tower!
>Never mind the cost difference, if you want to compare processors,
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Check out the prices available; compare list to list or discount to discount
and don't be too surprised!  By the time you pay for an SE and accelerator
board, you are pretty close to the SUN, Apollo, or even HP price area.
Further, the designed-in-from-the-start machines are much faster, even if
the clock, coprocessors, etc are identical.

I would have really liked to have seen a comparison against one of the $5k
68020 Unix boxes coming out for the business market.  The use of the odd
hardware combination begs for an explanation, but was not provided in the
article (to my recollection).  If workstation type graphics and capabilities
are desired, they should have been present on both machines.  If that is
wanted, the Mac II is probably the best buy on the market today for a
standalone machine.  (Oh no.  I'm about to get flamed to death.....)
		mike

Michael Fischbein                 msf@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov
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