EMC buys Data General

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Mon Aug 9 14:47:34 1999

On Mon, 09 Aug 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:
>Anyone else catch the benchmarks of the latest Athlon chip from AMD?
>Dhrystone clocks it at 1974 MIPS (aka 1.974 GIPS!) Truely it boggles the
>mind. I had to explain to our sysadmin how the uVAX 3900 sitting in my
>office was about the speed of a 386/25 and he nearly choked.

  Yeah but did you explain that you can pile 30 users on that 3900 and it'll
still perform about the same? That's not even possible with current Wintel
hardware.

  "There's more to computer performance than clock speed, folks."

              -Dave McGuire
Received on Mon Aug 09 1999 - 14:47:34 BST

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