Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!knuth!mjbtn!raider!elgamy!elg From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: ColorBurst NTSC @ LA VideoExpo Message-ID: <00675800467@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> Date: 1 Jun 91 18:21:07 GMT References: <1991May31.041515.14091@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <91145.032250ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA> Organization: Eric's Amiga 2000 @ Home Lines: 23 From article <1991May31.041515.14091@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, by drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald Richard Tillery Jr): > In a message From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) > >>I've seen the '040 quoted at anywhere between 12 and 20 MIPS. The > > Motorola literature indicates the 68040 @ 25Mhz runs 21 MIPS. 1 MIP: Meaningless Indicator of Performance MIPS: Mythical Instructions Per Second People assign these mythical "MIPS" numbers to processors based upon "gosh, I think it's fast, what number can I give it that'll prove it?". I kid you not. That's exactly how DEC assigned the value "1 MIPS" to the Vax 780... they said "Well, this thing goes about as fast as an IBM 370 mainframe, which did a million (real) instructions per second... even though we only do 500,000 instructions per second, OUR instructions DO MORE... so we'll call it a 1 MIP machine!" -- Eric Lee Green elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM uunet!mjbtn!raider!elgamy!elg "One problem with Bruce Springsteen is that you can't construct .signatures from his lyrics, unless you want a novel."