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From: gnb@melba.bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond)
Newsgroups: aus.jokes,comp.arch
Subject: Journos...
Message-ID: <124@melba.oz>
Date: 11 Apr 89 05:31:02 GMT
Reply-To: gnb@melba.bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond)
Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne
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In todays "Australian" computer section, the banner article on the
Intel 486 (without permission):

...
The i486's performance is measured at 37, 000 dhrystones (an objective
measure of speed and performance) and executes 6.1 double-precision
whetstones a second.

It is this which gives Intel its excuse for making the mainframe
comparison because the i486 can now integrate all of the
performance-critical components of mainframe computers on a single
piece of silicon
...

Wowzers!  Mash is wrong!  Dhrystones are objective!
(Pretty slow FP on that thing too!)

Greg.
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Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
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