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From: lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Overall speed
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Date: 15 Nov 90 15:04:33 GMT
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In article <643@storm.UUCP> bostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom) writes:
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>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[...]

Wow!  A billion MIPS!  Get those things running any faster and even X
might run with decent response times.  :-)

- Trent Lange

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