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From: stp@ethz.UUCP (Stephan Paschedag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Moto's data predicts 68040 performance well below 20 MIPS
Message-ID: <5277@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 90 09:15:04 GMT
References: <1990Jul13.163849.4282@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <6535.26a0e67f@vax1.tcd.ie> <713@obs.unige.ch> <382@zds-ux.UUCP> <1990Jul24.123842.19663@sco.COM>
Reply-To: stp@bernina.ethz.ch.UUCP (Stephan Paschedag)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <1990Jul24.123842.19663@sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
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>MIPS :== Millions of Instructions Per Second.
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>I don't see the word "integer" in any form anywhere in there, nor is it
>implied.
>

MIPS :== Missleading Indicator for Processor Speed


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