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From: sfrank@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Benchmarks (was Re: Read the fine print!)
Message-ID: <26FCE703.25276@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 23 Sep 90 16:46:59 GMT
References: <15640002@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <10548@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: sfrank@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Frank)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <10548@pt.cs.cmu.edu> avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian) writes:
>In article <15640002@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> sritacco@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco) writes:
>>Actually the slab cpu is not as high performance as the cube, it has
>>lower throughput and can only hold half as much RAM.
>
>The NeXTstation and NeXTcube have the same performance (conservatively 15
>MIPS).  The NeXTstation can be expanded to 32MB of RAM, the NeXTcube can
>be expanded to 64MB.
>-- 
>Avadis Tevanian, Jr.    (Avie)
>Manager, System Software
>NeXT, Inc.
>avie@NeXT.COM

Are Dhrystone and Linpack benchmarks available??  Ideally, the same
benchmark versions as used in Personal Workstation, to allow comparison
with other systems included in their tables of benchmarks.