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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
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"
Date: 2 Apr 1997 14:02:20 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <5hul1c$o4s$1@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5hrp8r$a3g@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5hs2f1$24q$1@bofh.noc.best.net> <5hui15$8ru@fido.asd.sgi.com>
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In article <5hui15$8ru@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>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?
Certainly. And running a benchmark on two operating systems, one
running on faster hardware, the other running on slower hardware, is
not science.
rone
"this sentence no verb"
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Ron Echeverri Best Internet Usenet Administration rone@best.net
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