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``When I use a word,'' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,
``it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less.''

In article <326@elxsi.UUCP> sherm@elxsi.UUCP (Michael Sherman) writes:
>In article <1805@pyramid.UUCP> csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>>In article <501@sw1e.UUCP> uusgth@sw1e.UUCP (uusgth) writes:
>>>The NP1 is the first of a new architecture from Gould, called the NPL series,
>>>that brings ultra-high performance to minicomputers at price performance
>>>factors well below the current industry.
>>>
>>>The NP1 is an ECL, gate-array processor sitting on a very fast bus (154 mega-
>>>bytes per second).With 2 cpu's on the same bus, coupled with a math accelera-
>>tor unit, it does 12 MIPS sustained at a base price of about $400,000....
....
>  The ELXSI is a multiprocessor with an architecture similar to the 
>  description of the Gould NP1 given in the original posting.
	......
>         The 6410 measures about 7 Whetstone MIPS, while the 6420 does about
>         12, which sounds the same as the Gould CPU described above.
>	 I don't know how Gould is measuring their MIPS, however.  If you
>         measure MIPS by running nroff and calling a VAX/780 1 MIP, then
>         an ELXSI 6410 is about a 4 (like a VAX 8600) and a 6420 is about a 
>	 6 (like a VAX 8650 or 8700).  Floating point, especially 64-bit 
>	 floating point, is much faster.

What are Whetstone MIPS? ....
	a) Are they DP MEgaWhetstones? (or SP?)
	b) Are they X times a VAX 11/780, if so, 
		b1) VAX/VMS
		b2) 4.3BSD?
It makes a difference: a MIPS M/800 looks like:
a:   6.9
b1:  8.3
b2: 16.8

Does anybody know if the new Gould systems have published numbers for things
like Whetstones, Linpacks, Dhrystones, etc. [Numbers for the new ELXSI's
would be nice too].

This sequence got started by people quoting press releases with a lot of
MIPS numbers thrown around but not defined. sigh.  At least sherm included
one MIPS definition, thank goodness.
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