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From: chuck@amdahl.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Was the 360 badly-designed?  (was Re: Compatibility with EBCDIC)
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 20:39:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 20:39:02 1987
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In article <1588@apple.UUCP> bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case) writes:
>                                                                   The
>MIPS Co. processor, SUN 4 processor, the Acorn RISC machine processor,
>the Am29000 processor, etc. have, at least, for some problems, performance
>equal to or greater than multimillion dollar machines, at prices orders
>of magnitude lower.
>
>    bcase

Anyone have an example of an application that runs faster on a MIPS,
Sun, Acorn, or AMD machine than it does on either a 5890 or a Cray 2?

Thanks, Chuck