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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors
Message-ID: <7144@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 14:47:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 14:47:01 1987
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <257@etn-rad.UUCP> jru@etn-rad.UUCP (0000-John Unekis) writes:
|In article <7042@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|>....
|>I will quote some figures from Byte magazine, July 1987 issue. I
................ and I did
|first off - those were dhrystones, not whetstones, one is an integer test,
|the other is floating point.
................ true. I had been doing a whetstone test before reading
................ my mail and my fingers didn't switch gesr.
|
|       I notice that you conveniently forgot the worst 
|       Intel column
|	 80286
|	 8Mhz
|	 1w/s
|	 ----
|Fib       950
|Float     116.36
|Seive     26.71
|Sort      46.53
|Savage    1103.0
................ Actually I meant to leave out the 68010 results, too.
The original article was about 68020 vs. 80386. The results were not
germane to the point I was making.
... blithering deleted

|I would hate to impugn the reputation of a Magazine like BYTE by suggesting
|that they would publish a test where the results were deliberatley falsified,
|but it is true that the best way to make INTEL look better than Motorola
|is to LIE.
.... my original point was that calling the Intel benchmarks lies
because Intel chose the benchmarks carefully, and I stand by it.
Obviously you would rather slander BYTE than admit that the 80386 was
faster in these benchmarks. Moreover you were so eager to disagree with
the results that you totally missed the point, which is the validity of
the benchmarks, not "my CPU is better than your CPU". I have both CPUs,
and I can't seem to care about benchmarks.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {chinet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me