s142029@fred.ucdavis.edu (05/11/91)
## Um, 4 million instructions per second (MIPS) times 30 seconds is 120 million
## instructions (MI), not 120 MIPS. And whether a difference of 30 seconds is
## important or not depends on how long the job took. If it was 31 seconds
## under Windows and 1 second under OS/2, that's impressive, but if it was
## 3000 seconds under Windows and 2970 under OS/2, then the 30 seconds difference
## isn't all that important (one percent speedup). I would have preferred to
## see the percentage increase in speed rather than a time difference.
Excuse me for type MIPS instead of MI. But the point is the increase in
performance will help businesses. For example, like you said, 3000 seconds =
50 minutes, each day has 24 hours => the savings each day is 14.4 minutes.
Each year has 364 days => savings of 87.36 hours or 3.64 days. And if you
ask a business man how good that saving is, he'll tell you.
Note : I am not an OS/2 salesman. I am not an IBM employee. I have nothing
to do with IBM. In fact, I don't like IBM that much either. It's just that
OS/2 is a great product, and I don't want to see people putting it down.
Tung Huynh
*** A toast to the future of OS/2 **
Just wish that OS/2 didn't belong to IBM. It should belong to Borland or ???