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From: CGWILLMERS@vax.swansea.ac.uk
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Subject: 66 MFLOPS ?!!!
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Date: 23 Mar 90 14:47:00 GMT
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    Fellow netters,
 
    I saw an ad in BYTE latest issue for an i860 board for PC's
claiming not a flop less than 66 MFLOPS "peak performance".
    Even dividing this figure by two, as I normally do with
manufacturers claims, it's still a lot of power.
    I have some questions...
    Is that possible ?
    Has anyone run any kind of real world application on
this chip, to assess actual performance ?
    Seeing that the board was advertised for 12.000 pounds, which
doesn't really buy a lot T800 these days, haven't we T' users just
lost our favourite selling point, price/ performance ?
    Aren't transputers over-priced ?
    I know some of this issues were raised before, but I considered
they deserve some more attention now that the competition hit
the market.
 
R. B. Willmersdorf
Dep. Civil Engineering
U. C. Swansea
Wales
 
cgwillmers@uk.ac.swan.vax