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From: jaw@eos.UUCP (James A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: sun's new mips honesty (16.67/14 = 8.4/x, solve for x)
Message-ID: <168@eos.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 22:14:11 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, California
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# "there's only one two." -- local tv station slogan

sun touts the new 4/110 as doing seven vax integer mips
in the second paragraph of their press release.
makes real sense this time, given the clock rate.

taking 8.4 as the mashey-measured mips for the 4/280
unix utility run (guess they finally have the compiler tuned),
we get an honest 7 coming out of the equation
(clock rate 16.67 mhz -> 14 mhz).

it still doesn't make the *current* high-end 4/200 series
machine an honest ten, so they must be reserving the verity
of this figure for a future (cypress chip) member of the line ...

personally, i'm waiting for the cut-price 4/60.