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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000
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Date: 16 Mar 90 20:36:04 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from root@sbcs.sunysb.edu

You also have to remember that MIPS is a relative term...it is practically
useless for comparing similar chips between differant manufacturers (ie: the
'040 and the i486), and even worse when comparing it with different
architectures like CISC and RISC.
 
In last months UNIX WORLD there was a very good article on all this that said
most companies are actually reporting Vax VUPS and not Vax MIPS...and a VUP is
(I believe) .47 Vax MIPS...
 
Sean