Risc System/6000

[Sam Drake]

In article <1990Feb21.012432.22401 at ico.isc.com> rcd at 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.

Opinions are my own.


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