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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: A performance mystery
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
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> Notice the fact these numbers are *IDENTICAL*, but yours are not,
> again something does not add up :-(

I am as baffled as you are, I just do not understand how the Compaq with such
miserable memory performance (how exactly do you build a computer so that reads
are *slower* than writes?) and much slower CPU can do so well in the overall.

-Crh

    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu

                     http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/