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From: jdn@misc.Eng.Sun.COM (Jeff Nisewanger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: New SparcStation
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Date: 17 Dec 90 19:19:09 GMT
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In article <3300233@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>I think it's a laugh that Sun quotes "28.5 mips"....
>
>Seriously, who cares about this extra .5 mips? ....
>
>Sheesh.  This tells me Sun doesn't know anything about "significant
>digits".  Am I going to buy a computer by a company that doesn't know
>about "significant digits"?  How can I be sure the floating point will
>work properly if the company displays blatant ignorance of this notion
>in their advertising???!!!!!

 
        I seem to recall seeing large IBM ads quoting 27.5 mips.


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