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From: jim@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Jim Providakes)
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Subject: Re: Workstation speed comparisons
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Date: 17 Oct 89 13:06:26 GMT
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the MIPS numbers to tell how well the computer will perform, i.e, in floating
point applications the Decstation 3100 is rated at 3.5 MFLOPS (real world) 
which is twice the preformance of the SUN Sparcstation.  I believe the 
Data General floating point performance is about equal to the Decstation.
The floating point performace of the MAC IIci is about .2 MFLOPS (from MIPS 
magazine, October 89).  So if you are considering perchasing a workstation
for such floating poing intensive applications as CAD, Mathematica/Macsyma,
data analysis programs (MATLAB,SAS,SYSTAT,etc), or modeling then you may
want to think about MFLOPS/$ and not MIPS/$.