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From: ian@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Ian Hogg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MIPS on 386
Message-ID: <1991May24.125642.13818@rathe.cs.umn.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 12:56:42 GMT
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In article <1991May23.105137.294@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes:
>I want to find out how many mips are the 386's running at.  A number of
>dealers told me their 33 Mz machine runs at about 7 to 8 mips.  When I go
>to the stores and run the mips program from Chips and Technology, it only
>shows actual MIPS to be around 4.7.  Does anyone have a clue who is lying:
>the dealer or the program??
>
>
>Benjamin Yu

  I see this on my 33Mhz (supposedly 8 MIPS) 386.  What I suspect is happening
is the MIPS test gives a value of 7-8 MIPS for register to register operations
(I think that's the test anyways).  What it appears to me is the classic case
of vendors reporting "peak" performance.  
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