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From: tpmsph@ecsvax.UUCP (Thomas P. Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Maximum MIPS for a given memory bandwidth?
Summary: VAX "MIPS" ===> "VUPS"
Message-ID: <5275@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 18:05:27 GMT
References: <6921@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <22050@amdcad.AMD.COM> <291@wombat.UUCP> <6955@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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As many or all of the readers of this group are well aware, what most
literature refers to as "MIPS" or "VAX MIPS" is not really a "MIP",
per se. Then the more enlightened literature points out that the 
comparison is really to a mythical 1.0 "MIP" VAX 11/780. Why don't
we just refer to "VUPS", the term DEC coined an uses in their own
literature? (VAX 11/780 Unit Processor(S))  At least they are making
a nod at the apparent fact that a 780 is not `really' a 1 MIP machine...

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