| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
| Total number of notes: | 5438 |
In the Aug 21 issue of MISweek is an article "Benchmark battle rages anew" on page 9. IBM had Arthur Anderson & Co. audit a new RAMP-C benchmark that shows the AS/400 to be faster than competing DEC and HP machines. Anderson said that each IBM mip equals 3.74 DEC mips! Bob Djurdjevic, President of Annex Research in Phoenix, Arizona said "That seems to be the final nail in DEC's mips coffin." Sound like a real fan of Digital computing ;-) This would all be very laughable if it weren't for the fact that customers read this crap (and usually believe it!) :-( Rick C
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| 415.1 | Talk Reality | CREDIT::BOOTH | What am I?...An Oracle? | Tue Aug 29 1989 18:26 | 12 |
Come on. Everyone is aware that Andersen gets the vast majority of its
consulting revenue in the IBM base. What were they going to say? That
the MIPS are the same? Further, RAMP-C is designed to display the
positive points of the IBM architecture. generally that means
sequentially searching and massive I/O. Since no one knows the nature
of RAMP-C, what real significance does that have?
If if were me, I'd ask the customer what he would think if Digital
published an internal proprietary benchmark that showed a VUP equalling
4 IBM MIPS? Would they believe that?
---- Michael Booth
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