Re: 66 MFLOPS ?!!!

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From: Christopher Dow
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 1990 15:57

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>     Fellow netters,
>  
>     I saw an ad in BYTE latest issue for an i860 board for PC's
> claiming not a flop less than 66 MFLOPS "peak performance".
>     Is that possible ?
>     Has anyone run any kind of real world application on
> this chip, to assess actual performance ?

	If you are reffering to Mercury Systems or Sky computer, then yes, I 
do beleive it is possible.  We currently have a tape at Mercury and they are
going to send back a few data points on how our software works with their 
board.  I'll post some of the results.

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