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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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Date: 21 Apr 91 00:23:06 GMT
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gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:

>No, 10% of 25 mips is 2.5.  Which is what the magazine I have at hand
>lists the 68040 used at its potential has.  It says 25 mips average.

  Your magazine is bunk.  Tell me the name of the magazine, and I'll
remember never to buy it.  [For a 25MHz 68040 to AVERAGE 25 native
MIPS, it would have to have a CPI of 1.  Even the BEST Motorola
estimates put the CPI at 1.3, and that's assuming a perfect memory
system]



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