Re: organic electrolytics in audio equipment?

On Feb 10, 2:14 am, "Mr.T" <MrT@home> wrote:
<jamesgan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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There can be surprising differences in other areas as well.  I
remember benchmarking a database on two machines.  One was an ibm
server and the other a compaq.  (before hp bough compaq)  The compaq
ran 60% faster even though both machines used an identical intel
processor and had the same memory and same os.

Probably disk intensive then, and could be something as simple as file
fragmentation, or OS optimisation differences.

MrT.

At the time we concluded it was architecture differences. Both pcs
were new out of the box purpose built to perform the benchmark. It
was disk intensive but both machines were state of the art servers
with scsi disk subsystems using a collection of the same disks with
the identical file locations. It convinced us to lean more business
compaq's way. It also didn't help ibm any that this was during one of
the ibm problem periods when it was taking them 4 to 6 months to
deliver pc servers.
.

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