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From: eugene@pioneer.UUCP
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Subject: Re: brash micros versus the Big Iron: not yet
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 00:06:46 EDT
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In article <640@winchester.UUCP> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
>Oops.  Having included "using definition 1 mips = VAX 11/780, 4.3BSD" 
>in this newsgroup dozens of times, I forgot to do it this time.
>Note that on every benchmark we do, we measure the performance on
>the fastest VAX 11/780 that is relevant to the benchmark and that we
>can lay our hands on, call that 1, and then comptue any ratios
>relative to that, specifiyign which one it was.

While I am fully aware that VAXen are "popular" machines, the 780 is over
ten years old.  It makes me wonder: why not use the measure of ENIACs
instead?  [Don't try to answer that, better to strive for better forms
of measurement] It's was one of Perlis' epigrams to have 100 ENIACS on a chip.
Back to writing.

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  NASA Ames Research Center
  eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
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