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From: eugene@pioneer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CISC strikes back.
Message-ID: <8677@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 12 May 88 20:57:17 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Posted: Thu May 12 16:57:17 1988

In article <3460014@hpsrla.HP.COM> brucek@hpsrla.HP.COM (Bruce Kleinman) writes:
>+-------
>| Good God man, enough of this drivel; dhrystones, damnit, I want dhrystones!
>+-------
>Dhrystones?  We don't need no stinkin' dhrystones!  Let's see some really
>*useful* benchmark numbers ... like Puzzle and Sieve.

To keep the motion picture theme, remember the first line was a
modification from the film "Breaking Away."  See it again, and see the
scene where he says:
	"Refund?!  Refund?!. . ."
Wouldn't you just love to be able to send some of your machines back?
[Now back to the stinkin' "The Treasure of Sierra Madre."]

Another gross generalization from

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov
  resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
  "Mailers?! HA!", "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology."
  {uunet,hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugene
  "Send mail, avoid follow-ups.  If enough, I'll summarize."