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From: jackk@shasta.Stanford.EDU (jackk)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000
Keywords: RS/6000, DEC, MIPS, SPARC, SUN4, performace
Message-ID: <11@shasta.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Nov 90 23:20:46 GMT
References: <2003@mountn.dec.com> <3300212@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1509@frapper.nsc.com>
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Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory
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In article <1509@frapper.nsc.com> my@frapper.UUCP (Michael Yip) writes:

>
>PS: Someone also mentioned that the RS/6000 architecture will be
>    very hard to shink or go up in clock speed.  Is that true?
>    And why?
No. Proof by counterexample:

This has already happened. The RS/6000 model 550, announced
last week (See EE TImes and the Wall Street Journal), runs at 41+ MHz,
and has a SPECmark of 54.3.


Jack