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From: jwright@cs.iastate.edu@canremote.uucp (jwright@cs.iastate.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 21 Dec 89 05:03:00 GMT
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From: jwright@cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Orga: Iowa State U. CS Department; Ames, IA

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

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