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In article <1993Jan6.203033.8638@cc.umontreal.ca>, soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard) writes:
|> Hello Suners and SGIers,
|> 
|> OK! I couldn't think of anything else for a title... anyways... on
|> with better and bigger things...
|> 
|> Having the January 1993 BYTE almost in front of me... there is an
|> ad from Sun showing their SPARCstation LX at 59 mips. I know! I
|> know! I know! Mips are meaningless... but still... can be really
|> impressive!
|> 
|> My question to you is this: What does SGI has to say about that
|> workstation? Does SGI has anything similar to it? And for the same
|> price? We have many Indigoes here at the University of Montreal...
|> and I am more than satisfied with their performance...


Most similar product = original Indigo.
As measured by SPEC92, both int and FP performance are grossly
similar.

The mips-rating comes from Dhrystone,  and is completely useless.
The mips/SPECint rating has been crawling upward; at this point,
it's something like 2:1 or 3:1 for the SS LX.

Ignore mips-ratings & dhrystone-mips; even the person who invented
the Dhrystone in the first place has long ago said, in public, many times,
that it has long since outlived its usefulness...
-john mashey    DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
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