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From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 106 mip PC
Message-ID: <12704@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 90 15:23:30 GMT
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In article <3644@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> petey@umbc5.umbc.edu.UUCP writes:
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>>The single processor is rated at 26.5 MIPS (not 26).
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>486's run at 26.5 mips??? Really???  I thought the fastest was around
>12 or 13.   How fast do they have those 486's going now?
>And what are some of the price tags on these speed demons???
>Also, how could one of these running SCO or Xenix stand up to the Next?

33mhz 486s, 267Mb main bus speed, caching algorithoms, cache snooping, 
tightly coupled parallel (ie: true peer to peer) and more. AT&T has a
set of white papers from Bell Labs on the box.

If the specs are anything CLOSE to true (even given a 50% fluff rate), it
would prob. blow away the Next (not to mention the IBM RIOS). And STILL
boot Flight Simulator ! :-)



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