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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm 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" Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Date: 2 Apr 1997 21:11:01 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Message-ID: <5hui15$8ru@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5hp7p3$1qb@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5hqc45$hlm@flea.best.net> <5hrp8r$a3g@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5hs2f1$24q$1@bofh.noc.best.net> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38384 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6574 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29660 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? -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804