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Re: 88110 and 56001 -- How many MFLOPS ?

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From: Jon H. Bohlke
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 04:15
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In article <1992Apr16.180949.26816@cs.ucla.edu> esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu  
(Eskandar Ensafi) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how many MFLOPS the Motorola 56001 DSP and 88110 CPU  
are  
> capabale of?  I am trying to compare this to the 80 MFLOPS of the 33-MHx  
i860  
> and to the 50 MFLOPS of the 33-MHz 96002 DSP.
> 
> If two 88110s can't beat the 50 MFLOPS of the 96002, then don't you  
think NeXT  
> should use the 96002 in its future and/or current systems?  I am not  
suggesting  
> the i860 because the 96002 provides binary compatibility with the 56001.

MFLOPS is a crappy benchmark, because it (like MIPS) does not include the  
instruction count.

Jon
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