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From: jss@hector.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Towards A Meaningful Performance Measure
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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 10:35:41 EST
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In article <3113@husc6.UUCP> reiter@harvard.UUCP (Ehud Reiter) writes:
>
>Today, as the computer industry finally starts being somewhat competitive
>(as opposed to being a monopoly by you know who), I think the big companies
>(IBM, DEC) are being forced to be a bit more sophisticated in their
>marketing, and stress things customers really care about, like software,
>reliability, peripherals, and performance in specific applications (usually
>floating-point or I/O intensive applications, not "integer crunching" ones).

Maybe I'm wrong, but it has been my impression that IBM has always
(at least 35 years) had very sophisticated marketing strategies,
and have usually (again over the course of 35 years) stressed things 
other than raw speed.  

Jerry Schwarz