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From: jclee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mathematica Benchmarks (NeXT vs. DEC and Mac)
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Date: 4 Jan 91 06:26:55 GMT
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> The NeXTStation was about 20-30% faster on this group of benchmarks
> than the DECStation 3100.  This is surprising since the DECStation is
> rated and 13.9 Mips and the NeXTstation benches at 15.0 Mips.  You
> would expect from the Mips rating only about a 10% increase.

or maybe it's because the 15.0 MIPS is a conservative estimate. I know
that some manufacturers using 68040 have rated their computers at
17.0 MIPS or higher....

James