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Subject: Re: Was the 360 badly-designed?  (was Re: Compatibility with EBCDIC)
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Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 01:28:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 01:28:25 1987
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In article <572@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 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.

I think RCA was also in there at some time.  Uh, how many people and
tasks is the 1100 running compared to the Sun?  One of the things that
has always bugged me about some "my computer is faster than yours" is
when people compare something like a VS90/80 with about 100 people
on it with a VAX/750 with 2 people on it, and say that the VAX is a
better machine because its response time is faster.  Note: true the 1100
cost a lot more than the Sun, but I believe as many factors should be
accounted for as possible.
> -- 
> -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter
> --                  U   <--- not a copyrighted cartoon :->


As an aside, has anyone figured out if the company name changes of
Unisys are progressing somewhere besides confusion?


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