Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!alberta!calgary!radford From: radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: More on Byte Benchmarks Message-ID: <1048@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 17:38:04 EDT Article-I.D.: vaxb.1048 Posted: Fri Aug 14 17:38:04 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 05:41:36 EDT References: <170@lakesys.UUCP> Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab. Lines: 17 Summary: Talk about unfair comparisons! In article <170@lakesys.UUCP>, steven@lakesys.UUCP (Steven Goodman) writes: > The 68881 was trimmed down to about 8Mhz in order to have it a valid > comparison seeing as the 80287 ran at 8Mhz... > What it comes down to is Intel has FINALLY made a good chip, it > DOES outperform the 68020 at equal clock speed... This is ridiculous. Do you think that users get a nice warm feeling from knowing their chip is getting "more for the megahertz" than the next guy's? Would you buy a $10000 Intel machine that ran at 8MHz in preference to a $10000 Motorola machine that ran at 24MHz, just because the Intel machine does more per cycle? Crippling one machine to make a "fair" comparison does not help answer the real question - "Which machine should I buy (for my application)?". Radford Neal