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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Am29000 and MIPS
Message-ID: <15265@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 17:32:27 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.15265
Posted: Wed Mar 18 17:32:27 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Mar-87 04:17:50 EST
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Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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Keywords: RISC MIPS
Summary: New units for MIPS


Recently several people have pointed out the MIPS debate to those on 
the net that haven't been exposed to it yet (lucky them). I propose
that in the future that the small letter 'm' be prepended to machine
specifications in 'machine' MIPS, and the small letter 'v' be prepended
to specifications referring to 'Vax 11/780' MIPS. So the AMD29000
would have a performance rate of 17 mMIPS and the Sun 3/200 is rated
at 4 vMIPS. I would clear things up noticeably, also if you are relaying
information why not just use ?MIPS if you aren't sure which way your
source was representing them.


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--Chuck McManis
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