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From: sritacco@hpdml93.HP.COM (Steve Ritacco)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: R6000 vs BIT SPARC
Message-ID: <14900002@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 89 18:12:21 GMT
References: <1989Nov21.015953.13817@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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As I understand it the R6000 is only running at 67 MHz the 80 MHz version
will be out some time next year.  Mips pays a lot of attention to cache
design, and is quoting system performance when they say 55 mips, not
raw CPU performance as the BIT SPARC numbers.