Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!winchester!mash
From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Fastest 88k
Message-ID: <42594@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 1 Nov 90 01:48:24 GMT
References: <1172@iceman.jcu.oz> <205@coplex.UUCP>
Sender: news@mips.COM
Reply-To: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
Lines: 17

In article <205@coplex.UUCP> dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks) writes:

>Our Motorola 8864DP (Dual Processor 88100 RISC) clocks in around 39 MIPS
>per processor.  This is much lower than their claim of 60 MIPS; but
>technically, the DP would give in around 78 MIPS in ideal processor slicing
>situations.

Since you've posted this number, could you explain for us on what
basis the 39 MIPS number is computed? 

In the absence of a calibration of a MIPS-rating, the only thing that
can be said is "no meaningful performance information" :-)
-- 
-john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
UUCP: 	 mash@mips.com OR {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash 
DDD:  	408-524-7015, 524-8253 or (main number) 408-720-1700
USPS: 	MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086