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From: goldstein@delni.dec.com (Explicitly political)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Transputers ? & A British ST/Amiga Rival ?
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 15:08:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 15:08:00 1987
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    The usual understanding of "MIPS" around here is that it's "Millions
    of IBM 360 instructions per second's worth of work".
    
    The VAX-11/780 ran at roughly the same speed, in floating point
    math, as one of the 360s which one of the magazine had clocked at
    1 million of its own instructions per second.  That became a reference
    point.  But the VAX uses few of its own instructions than the IBM,
    whose "instructions" are the basis of MIPS.
    
    Real explanation:  Meaningless Interpretation of Processor Speed. 
         fred
    (normal disclaimers apply)