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From: tinyguy@cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE)
Subject: Re: 80387 25MHz & 33MHz Questions (Was : 80387 25MHz question)
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.081807.27116@cs.mcgill.ca>
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 08:18:07 GMT

In article <1991Apr18.211744.12564@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> jsims@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (J. Robert Sims) writes:
>
>I have seen comparisons (PC Magazine?) that indicated that the Weitek's 
>performance was quite exaggerated.  It was only blindingly fast with
>certain special optimized benchmark programs, and in real applications
>was only a little bit faster.  The only league difference is price.
>
>Rob


Isn't some of the Sun Sparcs use Weitek as their Math Chip? It's
rated figure is about twice of that of 486 at same clock speed...
(I'm talking about SPECmarks for floats)
So it _should_ have some significant improvement over 387...


-TG