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From: colwell@omews1.intel.com (Robert Colwell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: New SparcStation
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.010047.29932@omews63.intel.com>
Date: 18 Dec 90 01:00:47 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"....
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>>Seriously, who cares about this extra .5 mips? ....

Don, c'mon, that 0.5 is very meaningful.  It makes it easy to compare
this machine to the VAX-11/780 -- throw the 0.5 away, and what's left
is the excess horsepower vs. the VAX.  :-)

Bob Colwell  mipon2!colwell@intel.com  503-696-4550
Intel Corp.  JF1-19
5200 NE Elam Young Parkway
Hillsboro, Oregon 97124