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From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Addressing modes
Message-ID: <427@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 21:08:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 21:08:11 1986
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In article <389@mips.UUCP> mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
>	cycles/MIPS = (clock rate in Mhz) / (MIPS rating)
>so that, for example, if you think a VAX 11/780 with UNIX is a 1 Mips cpu,
>at 5Mhz, it gets a 5.  If you think a good 68020 implementation is
>twice as fast, then it gets 16.67/2 = 8.33, etc.  [Notice that this
>isn't cycles/instruction, but cycles/equivalent work.]

I'm currious -- are these off-the-top-of-the-head numbers to illustrate the
point, or do they approximately reflect reality?  If the latter, are there
any published results?
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA