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From: paulr@mips.COM (Paul Richardson)
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Subject: Re: Moto's data predicts 68040 performance well below 20 MIPS
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Date: 18 Jul 90 16:31:28 GMT
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And do not forget that the Vax 11/780 is technically not a 1 mips machine.
The clock cycle is 200ns.I guess assuming a performance rating of unity 
makes life easier for the marketing types to synthesize other more 'useful'
performance numbers :)

-- 
Peace,
/pgr
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