Re: New IBM Nonsense

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:25:57 +1100
Message-ID: <41f25462$0$31102$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>

thu.nnguyen_at_gmail.com apparently said,on my timestamp of 22/01/2005 9:30 PM:

>
> Why wouldn't you believe what was just read? They are industry
> standard benchmarks and the full disclosure of the result are available
> at www.tpc.org

Do you believe in Santa as well?

>>Wow ... I guess IBM is saying a Power5 at 1.9GHz is equivalent to an
>>Itanium2 at 1.5GHz: I don't think so.

>
>
> Yep Power5 hardware is much much faster than Itanium 2s. If IBM were

You really didn't read what Daniel wrote, did you? <sigh>

> (but still below) to the 3.2million results from DB2, although I doubt
> they ever would.

Me2.

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