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From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS)
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Subject: Re: Criteria ... [really: are N des
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Date: 20 May 89 01:12:43 GMT
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In article <28200317@mcdurb> dfields@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
>

>If a  third party can't figure out how to make a simple benchmark
>run fast on your system, how do you expect your customers to be able
>port an aplication which takes advantage of your high performance system?
>

a) Who said anything about simple ?
b) Those really interested in max performance are typically
   willing to go to some efforts. Consider your (albeit few) NP1/2
   users; all of Cray's; many of MIPS's  etc.

Complex systems (which includes many RISC set ups) require some
complex usage.


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