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From: wjb@goanna.oz (Warwick Bolam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Byte benchmark articles (Re: Mac C Compilers)
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 01:12:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 01:12:28 1987
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I think the offensiveness of the Byte article stems from the fact that
it is heades "68020 vs 80386" when it should have been headed "Machine X
using 68020 vs. 80386".  If you want to compare raw processor speed,
then don't do what BYTE did.

Warwick Bolam
Dept of Computing
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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