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Article #11851Re: MIPS rating of 486DX2-66 in BYTE
From: Dennis Robinson
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:16
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:16
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gilligan@cs1.bradley.edu (Edward Henigin) writes: >In <C1F9K4.8LB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson) writes: >>In the newest issue of BYTE magazine they compare a DX2-66 to the >>new $4000 SPARC classic. They rathe the DX2-66 at 53 MIPS and >>the classic at 58 MIPS. The DX2-66's MIPS _HAS_ to be _TOTALLY_ >>wrong. [...] >>If I had my choice and the money >>ID take the classic! [...] >Yeah, but you can't play Wing Commander on the Sparc. You have a point, great hardware doesn't sell itself.. Standards sell. Imagine everyone the prospect of Games ported to workstations, and some that need to run of workstations, networked. We need to open our minds to more than $$ figures, because there is some great technology out there that we are all missing.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!djr48312 From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson) Subject: Re: MIPS rating of 486DX2-66 in BYTE References: <C1F9K4.8LB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <gilligan.727993917@cs1.bradley.edu> Message-ID: <C1FnBG.G9J@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: na Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:16:27 GMT Lines: 19