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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Multiprocesor on NeXT?
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Date: 25 May 91 18:02:45 GMT
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In article <1991May25.083440.16168@eng.umd.edu> cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes:

     So I'd say, perhaps putting 2 68040 on a same mother board can probably
     give more than 30 MIPS at 25 MHZ, and when clock rate being pushed to
     say 50 MHZ, a 60+ MIPS may be possible! :-) am I dreaming or what?

NeXT year 1 R4000 will deliver the a SPECint 30+ and a SPECfp 30+
running at 50MHz w/o and external cache, and both fp and int will SPEC
in the 50's with a cache.  The 25MHz 68040 delivers a SPEC of around
10-13.  And from what I understand it's already running at 50MHz
internally.  In other words, you're dreams are quite up to SPEC. :-)

-Mike