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From: jwright@cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Summary: Death to Apple!  :-)
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Date: 20 Dec 89 02:53:11 GMT
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daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
| kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Kipnis) says:
| > Please give an example of what you can do faster on a mac than on a pc.
| Please multiply these two matrices:
| 
| 	long A[70000][50],B[50][70000];

Let's see... No assignments, and of course all compilers initialize data
to zero, hence the answer is the zero matrix!  Oh, I'm typing this on my
AT, so that must be faster than the Mac I'm not typing this on.  QED

Gee folks, ain't computer wars grand?

[Of course, it's still an open question as to whether the VAX I'm logged
in to or the Sun that handles the news is the more powerful.  Time to
write a research grant...]

--
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu