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From: bob@uhmanoa.UUCP (Bob Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VAX 750/780 comparison
Message-ID: <284@uhmanoa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 12:41:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 17 12:41:01 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 15:30:39 EDT
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Reply-To: bob@uhmanoa.UUCP (Bob Cunningham)
Organization: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics
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Keywords: FPA

If you already have an FPA on the 750, don't expect much more throughput
for compute-intensive jobs.  The 780 and 750 FPAs have very similar
performance.  I.e., for pure "number crunching" programs that use
exclusively or primarily floating point, a 780 is only perhaps 10%
faster than a 750.

-- 
Bob Cunningham
bob@hig.hawaii.edu