Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks: RS6000 v. SS-1+

[Greg Pavlov]

In article <1991Jan30.003004.74 at intek01.uucp>, mark at intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins) writes:
> The most recent version of Unix Review contains a rather flamish
> letter from someone who claims that his RS6000's don't perform
> appreciably better in the application they're running than do 
> SparcStation 1+'s, and are much harder to port software to, as well.
> 
  "flamish" = what he said | how he said it ?

  - he's not the only one who has come to this conclusion.  See comp.arch,
    among others -

    greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny

    pavlov at stewart.fstrf.org