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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Was the 360 badly-designed?  (was Re: Compatibility with EBCDIC)
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 08:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 08:02:00 1987
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: I don't know that te Sun will beat a Cray...
Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:4025 comp.arch:2006

> >equal to or greater than multimillion dollar machines, at prices orders
> >of magnitude lower.
> Anyone have an example of an application that runs faster on a MIPS,
> Sun, Acorn, or AMD machine than it does on either a 5890 or a Cray 2?

I don't know about the 5890 or the Cray-2, but the Sun 4 sure as hell beats
out the Univac-I-mean-Sperry-I-mean-Unisys 1100/72 we're using here (and it's
a multimillion dollar machine) so long as the number of users is small.
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