Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RPM-40 microprocessor @ 40 MHz; dat
Message-ID: <9794@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 21:46:42 GMT
References: <9758@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <9792@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <9792@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> oconnor%sungod@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
>Why don't we all use MIPS ("average" or "peak" qualified as needed)
>for instruction execution rate, MHz for clock speed, and
>VIPS ( VAX-11/780-Indexed Performance Standard :-) or whatever
>for some measure of general-purpose computing power ?

  I like it!! Now we have VIPS, which will make it a lot easier to tell
what is meant by the numbers. Way to go! Put that idea on your monthly
report ;^>
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me