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From: devine@cookie.dec.com (Bob Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: MIPS, VIPS, and VUPS
Message-ID: <8803071952.AA04478@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 7 Mar 88 19:52:41 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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John Mashey wrote:
> As I understand it, the truly correct term (from DEC itself) is VUPS.

  True, the internal DEC acronym is VUP.  It stands for (V)AX 11/780 
(U)nit of (P)rocessing.  As are all single numbers used to compare 
different processors, a VUP is fuzzy.  For example, a microVAX II is
roughly equivalent in integer speed to an 11/780 but I/O throughput
is less.  Nevertheless, a VUP is useful because many comparisons had
used an 11/780 as the informal measuring stick.

Bob Devine