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Unless there is a standard that all computer systems are measured by Each company will use their own marketing "spin" to make theirs look better. Until then.....I guess I am an "IBM apologist" too. And proud of it <g> Because I want my machine to be the best....and will figure out a way to make it sound like it's better than the competition too (especially to my M$ buddies)....no matter how I "fudge" the facts. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Rehm [mailto:javadisciple@earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 12:14 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: Trivia: Processor MHz Why is it that when people are being accurate you call them "IBM apologists"? For years IBM has had to fight the problem of simple minded customers who read MHz as the be-all, end-all of how fast a computer is. CPW is a way of comparing one AS/400 with another. It is a meaningful and useful term in that it allows a customer to compare models. AMD hasn't succeeded in jumping this same hurdle. Their processors are faster (in workload) than Intel processors with a higher MHz rating. But in our simple minded marketplace where buyers compare clock speeds and pretend that is performance, AMD is losing sales they shouldn't. While I am sure that IBM marketing would be happy to say they have a 10 GHz processor or whatever, they have been using workload measurements since long before there was a PC marketplace so your contention falls flat there. Leif Svalgaard wrote: >From: Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com> > >>While CPW may be arbitrary it's a lot more meaningful then MIPS for the >> >kind > >>of work done on an AS/400. >> > >Oh, Walden, don't be an apologist for IBM here. I'm sure that *if* the AS/400 >ran at 10GHz, that number would be brandied about instead of a CPW of 100000. > -- Chris Rehm javadisciple@earthlink.net Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 1 John 4:7 _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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