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From: mash@mips.com (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Data General Aviion 7000, 8000
Keywords: New Data General 88K machines
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Date: 29 Mar 91 18:55:16 GMT
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In article <1313@dg.dg.com> greene@sequoia.rtp.dg.com (jon greene) writes:
>In article <15515@june.cs.washington.edu>, robertb@cs.washington.edu (Robert Bedichek) writes:
...
>|> I read that the workstations use four 25 MHz 88100's.  Given the
>|> optimistic figure of 17 MIPS for a 20 MHz part (the figure given by
 
>I'm not sure where you got the Motorola numbers.  I have in front of me a press release for the Motorola MPC 100 where they claim 27 MIPs for a 20MHz system.

Early on, 20MHz 88K's were labeled by Motorola as 17-mips, in any of the
literature I saw.  Whenever the MPCs were introduced, they switched to
dhrystone mips and then got labeled as 27-mips.
I suspect this is wheere the conflicting views came from.

Of course, various vendors are more or less careful to label
dhrystone-mips as dhrystone mips, or not.  Somtimes the Dhrystone
part has a tendencey to disappear :-)
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