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From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re: Dream System (sort of)
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Date: 18 Dec 90 23:36:36 GMT
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Previously, I posted this and then tried to delete too late...

>> Does speed not matter?  The Sparcs are much (10x?) faster.
>
>I'm willing to admit some advantages to Sun, but the Sparcstation I is
>about the same performance as the 400t.  At the worst the multiplier is
>some number greater than one and less than two.  It's certainly nowhere
>near ten.
>
>			-- Chan
>
>If all the false statistics presented on usenet in a year were placed
>end to end they would circle the equator 50,000 times.

OOOOOOOOOPSSSSSSSSSSSS!

And I'm doing my part to make that happen. I should have qualified
my performance statement with the word "integer". The SparcStation I
is 3 to 4 times faster than the 400t on floating point benchmarks.

The 68040 upgrade will pretty much close that gap.

			-- Chan