Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: GIPS? --> BIPS! Message-ID: <3031@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 11 Dec 90 14:57:04 GMT References: <818@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 12 In article <818@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> jc@atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel) writes: | So I propose: Let's call 1000 MIPS: 1 BIPS Let's not. MIPS is meaningless, but widely used. There are not that many processors around which need the scale factor yet. By my benchmarks you can count them on the fingers of one foot. Multiprocessor machines with multiple vector units may, on benchmarks, hit 1000 MFLOP, but I don't think there's a need for GFLOP yet anywhere but in ad copy, either. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.