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From: bostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Overall speed
Message-ID: <643@storm.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 90 09:03:02 GMT
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In article <7567@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@is-next.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
>The SPARC 2 is a RISC machine, right?  So it's 28 MIPS is fast, but each
>instruction isn't doing all that much.

Yeah, they are talking about dhrystone MIPS where 1 MIPS = ~1200 or ~1700 
dhrys. I don't have the exact number. Read any IBM RS/6000 ad where they
have the SPARC 1  15 MIPS, DEC 3100 so and so mips RS/6000 1 billion MIPS 
blah blah, you will find in the fine print "1 MIPS equals 1727 dhrystones
per second" or something. On a VAX 11/780 I believe that it takes about
one million instructions to do 1727 dhrys....

There you are.