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From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Marketing MIPS
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Date: 10 Feb 88 07:38:50 GMT
References: <15349@beta.UUCP> <1685@aurora.UUCP> <9741@tekecs.TEK.COM> <1110@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
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In article <1110@thorin.cs.unc.edu> leech@unc.UUCP (Jonathan Leech) writes:
>In article <9741@tekecs.TEK.COM> andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes:
[prior reference is missing]
>$	"the model number, as well as the "marketing mips" gets stamped
>$	on only at the end."

>$Strange.  Around here, the "marketing mips" get stamped on before the
>$engineering starts.

>    What happens when serendipity strikes and the real mips exceed
>the marketing claims? Are all your ads rewritten? (.5 :-)

Unless it's the top end machine, you add some no-ops to your microcode.
(You obvious don't want to affect the sales of your top end machine.)
:-) except some companies are rumored to do this :-)
[I don't realy mean to imply that tektronix is one of them.]
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