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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
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Date: 3 Apr 91 09:32:45 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.075643.4472@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

   >
	   No one is waiting for the 050, but Motorola has made a
   clear committment to their 680x0 line. If the current 040 is 15
   mips then the 50MHz will be 30. And as top RISC machines stomping
   CISC machines, YOU CAN'T COMPARE MIPS BETWEEN RISC AND CISC
   CHIPS. The instructions on the RISC chip do less BY DEFINITION.
   There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks. The world is hardly
   being run over by RISC chips, although they are becoming the
   in-thing in workstations.

That is why we use SPECmarks to compare computers instead of mips.
Look at HP's Snake line, or any other workstation vendor, to see where
the industry is going.

-Mike