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From: rberlin@birdlandEng.Sun.COM (Rich Berlin)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh MIPS,MFLOPS, and SPECmarks
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Date: 17 Apr 91 00:43:03 GMT
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In article <41314@cup.portal.com>, ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
|> And does anyone have any of these benchmarks for old computers?
|> It would be interesting to compare a VAX, or a PDP-10, or an
|> ENIAC (:-)) with today's machines.
|> 
|> And how about calculators?  Does an HP-15C blow away ENIAC for
|> floating point?
|> 
|> This posting is not a joke.  I would like to see estimates of
|> what all these machines would do on these benchmarks.
|> 
|> 						Tim Smith

You can't measure SPECmarcs unless you have FORTRAN and C compilers,
so I suspect the calculators are out for that comparison. :-)

And MIPS is only a useful measure of comparison if you reference it to
something, (e.g. VAX-11/780 MIPS, which has been the commonly used
measure in the workstation biz.)  By that reference, of course, a
VAX 11/780 is precisely 1 MIP.

-- Rich