Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!mbutts
From: mbutts@mntgfx.mentor.com (Mike Butts)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Dhrystone 2.n Results (1 of 2)
Message-ID: <1988Dec15.144003.85@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 15 Dec 88 22:40:00 GMT
References: <12581@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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From article <12581@cup.portal.com>, by bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian bcase Case):

> Everybody is so angry because a fair number of us are like me:  I have
> access to a UNIX system for mail purposes only.  I don't *have* uncompress
> and uudecode on my Mac!  Without looking past the first page of the note,
> I downloaded it to my Mac, at 2400 baud it took several minutes.  When I
> looked at the file on my Mac, I was pretty mad to see that I had wasted
> my time downloading a bunch of garbage.

Many are readers have no access to UNIX, others have only
secondary access to it or ability to use it.

Would it be too much to ask for a condensed version of results, 
with perhaps 100 entries on machines of current interest?

Most of us are interested in the current generation of workstations
(i.e. Apollo >= 3000, Sun >= 3, uVAX II, RT, etc.), RISC chips 
(MIPS, 88K, 29K, etc.), PCs (286, 386, Mac, etc.), mainframes 
(VAX 8xxx, IBM 30xx, 43xx, etc.) and supers, with some VAX 780 
numbers thrown in for reference.  Few are interested in numbers 
for old 370s, PDP-11s or 8086 machines.  They can uncompress if 
need be, or if they need the code.

The sum total of that will be smaller than the flamage on
uncompress I've seen so far.

Thanks to Rick and all others who go through the effort to come
up with the data.
-- 
Mike Butts, Research Engineer         KC7IT           503-626-1302
Mentor Graphics Corp., 8500 SW Creekside Place, Beaverton OR 97005
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