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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.arch
Subject: Re: more on the 386! 
Message-ID: <927@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 08:59:12 EST
Article-I.D.: celtics.927
Posted: Tue Nov  5 08:59:12 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 05:21:29 EST
References: <8@i80386.UUCP> <491@enmasse.UUCP>
Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Organization: Celerity Computing (Eastern Region), Framingham, MA
Lines: 41
Keywords: 80386 hype vs. technoboob nitpicking
Xref: watmath net.micro:12649 net.arch:2067
Summary: USENET ~= Technical

In article <491@enmasse.UUCP> dave@enmasse.UUCP (Dave Brownell) writes:
>In article <8@i80386.UUCP> kds@i80386.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker) writes:
>> First, thanks for all the offers of congratulations!  Second, an apology
>> for this note being a little late, I was out of town for a while, but as
>> a result, unix has now been running on the 386 on 3 continents!
>
>*****	FLAMES ON MEDIUM
>
>Looks like there's now a USENET machine dedicated to deluging us with
>i80386 ADVERTISING. 
>
>THERE IS NO REASON FOR MOST OF IT TO BE ON USENET.  Only numbers 3 & 4
>are technical.  Number 5 is also of interest to technoids.  But the rest,
>and the size, are suitable only for marketing pronouncements. 

This is not a TECHNICAL network.  It is a USER'S network.  I use
UNIX-based machines in a technical AND marketing role - I'm a customer
support representative.  It's of interest to me.  Get your head
out of your white socks and penholder.  Information is information,
and for a poor merely-semi-techie like myself, it's more memorable
and of more use sugar-coated than as YASSS (Yet Another Stupid
Spec Sheet).

Besides which, it should be the role of impartial folks - Livermore,
Jack Dongarra, etc., to publish benchmarks.  Anyone who believes
vendor generated performance numbers deserves what they get.  
(Which, at the risk of over-marketing-hyping you, Celerity supplies
the Livermore Loops and Argonne numbers, as well as a copy of
Whetstone you can run YOURSELF on our system.)


LIGHTEN UP.  We don't ALL live in a world of MIPS, FIPS, WHIPS, DRIPS,
and (most of all) dips.

-- 
 ... "What were you expecting, rock'n'roll?"                                  

Roger B.A. Klorese
Celerity Computing, 40 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701, (617) 872-1772        
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