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In article <KHB.91Apr23193227@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) writes:

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| In article <1991Apr23.140140.27847@webo.dg.com> lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com (Donald Lewine) writes:
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|    ....  MIPS marketing (at least as retold
|    by DEC) is that the MIPS compiler technology provides a *HUGE* 
|    ^^^^^^
|    advantage over other RISC architectures.  If the difference is
|    +/- 10%, that is a whole different story.
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| That was the old _DEC_ story. DEC's newest compiler release (press
| release info) claimed dramatic improvements with the new compilers ...
| which are a product of DEC not based on the MIPSco base.
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| Marketing departments reserve the right to change stories as
| circumstances dictate ;>

Maybe you should actually read the release.  It says that the put a
NEW front end on, and that the back end was provided by MIPSco.  Also,
only Fortran had dramatic improvements, C was pretty much unchanged.
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Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?