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From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
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Date: 2 Apr 1997 21:11:01 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Ron Echeverri (rone@bofh.noc.best.net) wrote:
: Science is hard!  Numbers are easy!

Sure they are.  The numbers don't represent any science.  The code that
generated the numbers, on the other hand, certainly does represent science.
While people have pointed out a few bugs in lmbench 1.1, the code has proven
to be quite accurate and robust.  Is that not science?
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Larry McVoy     lm@sgi.com     http://reality.sgi.com/lm     (415) 933-1804