Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 16:45:11 07/25/00
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On July 25, 2000 at 17:29:34, Ed Schröder wrote: >On July 25, 2000 at 16:54:39, Alvaro Polo wrote: >>I worked for IBM as a scientist at the IBM Scientific Center in Madrid. I would >>very much more trust Hsu's number than "official IBM" numbers. PR's and >>marketers at IBM are not stupid people (my father was a country general manager >>there), they are on the contrary very intelligent, but they don't care that much >>about scientific exactness in documents directed to the general public. They >>probably wouldn't understand very well, for example, why the difference between >>256 and 480 processors is significant. >> >>Alvaro > >With all respect to your opinion I believe that P/R people very well >understand the value of numbers. If they don't they would do a very >poor job which I find hard to believe. > >Ed That was quite a statement from Alvaro. :) In any case, DB2 had 480 chess processors, not 256. Dave
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