Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!jrg
From: jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Risc System/6000
Message-ID: <38860@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 90 17:50:51 GMT
References: <1514@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> <4115@ibmpa.UUCP> <10307@hoptoad.uucp> <1559@awdprime.UUCP> <1990Feb21.012432.22401@ico.isc.com> <1395@ks.UUCP>
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In article <1395@ks.UUCP> drake@ibmarc.uucp (Sam Drake) writes:
>In article <1990Feb21.012432.22401@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>>
>>If we're going to discuss benchmarks on these machines, let's start with
>>something halfway reasonable, like SPEC.
>
>Good idea.  At the San Francisco announcement, Phil Hester from IBM said
>that the RISC System/6000 scored the highest SPEC score that any workstation
>had ever rated, and gave the numbers.  I don't have 'em in front of me,
>but I believe the SPEC rating was >30.

comp.arch has lots of SPEC numbers (back articles even have a fair variety of
other systems to compare against).
-jrg

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apple!jrg	John R. Galloway, Jr.       contract programmer, San Jose, Ca

These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!