Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!assari.tut.fi!assari.tut.fi!n67786 From: n67786@lehtori.tut.fi (Nieminen Tero) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises? Message-ID: Date: 17 Dec 90 08:22:27 GMT References: <1990Dec4.092217.26859@cs.ucla.edu> <47110@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Dec5.072931.4079@cs.ucla.edu> <1990Dec17.094323.7146@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Sender: news@assari.tut.fi (USENET News System) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au's message of 17 Dec 90 09:43:23 GMT These days MIPS is not used to refer to Millions of Instructions Per Second. Instead 1 MIPS means the computing power of a VAX 11/780 measured using a certain kind of bencmark test. So a machine producing say 20 MIPS is actually computing 20 times faster than the VAX 11/780 regardless of the type of the cpu (ie. risc vs. cisc). This is quite handy to eliminate benchmarking fast do-nothing instructions (nop). Also calculations like in the previous article do not hold in this contents. I don't have any actual figures at hand about the spoken i860, but check comp.sys.benchmarks for more detail information. -- Tero Nieminen Tampere University of Technology n67786@cc.tut.fi Tampere, Finland, Europe