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From: jan@bagend.uucp (Jan Isley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Dream System (sort of)
Message-ID: <1990Dec24.054443.1842@bagend.uucp>
Date: 24 Dec 90 05:44:43 GMT
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irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') writes:

>Sun are known to sometimes overestimate their MIPs rating by 10-20% and to
>use the inflated arithmetic mean of the Single and Double Precision
>LINPACK MFlops rating whereas HP always has used the uninflated Double
>Precision LINPACK values.  I hope HP keeps their more honest policy.

Sun also uses compilers that cost *major* dollars more than the standard
ones to get these numbers.
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