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From: pjg@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (Paul Graham)
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Subject: Re: i860 benchmarks?
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Date: 7 May 90 04:34:09 GMT
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cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) writes:

|Where can I get ahold of some benchmarks for the i860 processor?  Any
|system configuration is OK (please mention it), but I'm looking at a
|brochure for the "Mercury MC860" in particular.  They claim 80Mflops
|for a single processor at 40Mhz.  What kind of MFlops are those?

as i understand it they simply replay the numbers they got from intel.
i believe these have some basis in linpack.

however (if it matters) despite announcements to the contrary mercury
does *not* have a fortran compiler and the people who return phone
calls don't seem to know much about it and the people who know about
it don't return calls.  i decided to buy something else.