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From: crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 55 MIPS & 66 MIPS [really: i960, i860, etc]
Message-ID: <31687@max.mips.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 89 21:25:12 GMT
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Reply-To: crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In the November 27th issue of Business Week is an article about the RISC
chip revolution. The first page of the article has information whose source
is given as IN-STAT Inc. They show a table listing the performance of
several microprocessors including MIPS, 88K, SPARC, Clipper, 29K, '860 and
two CISC machines, the 68030 and the '486.
	The Table is reproduced below:

	R3000			25MHZ	20MIPS
	88K			25MHZ	17MIPS
	SPARC			33MHZ	16MIPS
	Clipper			60MHZ	16MIPS
	88K			20MHZ	13MIPS
	29K			12MHZ	12MIPS
	486			25MHZ	15MIPS
	860			33MHZ	15MIPS
	68030			33MHZ	6MIPS

Has anyone got any idea how IN-STAT arrives at their numbers?

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Just the facts Ma'am