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From: ram%shukra@Sun.COM (Renu Raman, Sun Microsystems)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: myths & magazines
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Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 15:39:33 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 15:39:33 1987
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     Recently a friend of mine, while hunting for a 386 based PC was
     given a copy of a page from PCWEEK that had benchmarks of
     various 386 boards.  Apart from the usual VAX realitve mips, the sieve
     etc, curious enough they had a NOOP(!!) number - showing
     the time it takes to execute a noop.  Ofcourse the noop number was
     not compared with Vaxens but a comparison of various 386 boards was
     given.   Thought this might interesting within the context of this
     topic.

     That reminded me of the old joke about trumping NOOPS in a CRAY.
     Soon we may have machine X relative NOOP speeds and ....

     [Actually there may be a good use for NOOPS]

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