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From: littauer@uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Large Unix, SysV.4 for Sperry
Message-ID: <0a=302Ns95IT01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 23 Mar 90 02:03:06 GMT
References: <22847@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: littauer@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <22847@adm.BRL.MIL> archunix@stl-08sima.army.mil (Bernie J. Potter) writes:
 
>Encore's Multimax 300's (4-40 mips) and 500's (17-170 mips).
>
>Amdahl's 5890,5980, or 5990 machines, using UTS (5-100 mips).

A word of caution here... as I'm sure you know, MIPS stands for
Meaningles Indicator of Processor Speed. You can be burned badly
by listening to mips numbers when you cross architecture boundaries
since there is rarely any correspondence.

In the 370 (mainframe) world, there are independent companies keeping
the vendors honest. This doesn't exist in the UNIX world, so you get
all kinds of bizaare claims. The SPEC folks are a step in the right
direction (multiple benchmarks with varying workloads) but your mileage
will definitely vary.
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