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Article #28581Re: Atari Transputers ? & A British ST/Amiga Rival ?
From: Explicitly political
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1987 19:08
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1987 19:08
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The usual understanding of "MIPS" around here is that it's "Millions
of IBM 360 instructions per second's worth of work".
The VAX-11/780 ran at roughly the same speed, in floating point
math, as one of the 360s which one of the magazine had clocked at
1 million of its own instructions per second. That became a reference
point. But the VAX uses few of its own instructions than the IBM,
whose "instructions" are the basis of MIPS.
Real explanation: Meaningless Interpretation of Processor Speed.
fred
(normal disclaimers apply)
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