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In article <711583453snx@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
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>In article <1992Jul21.204217.15732@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU writes:
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>  > That's quite funny, since PC mag did a review on how the 040-25 matches
>  > up to a DX2 486-50, the 486 blew the doors off the 040.
>Why has the 040 doors? And who cares about a 486 blowing off the doors of a
>040? Is that significant? Does it say anything about the work one can do with
>such a beast?
>
This was in reply to someone who said differently.  It was not meant as
a remark on which cpu was better.

>  > And look at your specs bud!
>I don't have specs.
>
If you need specs, here it is, SPEC mark of 11 for the 040-25 and for
the 486-50 it was 19.

>  > According to BYTE mag, the 040-25 runs with 2.4 MFLOPS, and then
>  > the 486-33 does 2.6 MFLOPS w/o a weitek 4167.
>  > Then look at your MIPS, etc...
>I don't have MIPS.
>
>BTW, wasn't MIPS acronym for Meaningless Instructions Per Second? Wonder what
>MFLOPS meant though... C'mon guys, what good does this comparing of meaningless
>numbers do to anyone?
>
FLOPS stands for Floating point operations per secound.

>Greetings,
>Peter Busser
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>I don't do .sigs