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From: abali@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Bulent Abali)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CISCy RISC? RISCy CISC?
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Date: 17 Oct 88 21:54:05 GMT
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In article <973@naucse.UUCP> sbw@naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) writes:
>A case in point.  I know of a not-yet-announced machine (perhaps
>never to be announced machine)....

>The result is a 12.5MHz machine that runs 25000 (claimed)
>dhrystones using what I would call a 'throwaway' C compiler.
>The manufacturers 'know' they can push the clock up to 30MHz,
>which (my estimate, this time) would give >40000 dhrystones.

I designed a new machine on a napkin which cranks a humble
100,000 dhrystones at 8 Mhz. It is faster than 
Amdahl 5890 (43,000 dhrys), IBM 3090 (31,000 dhrys), 
and Cray XMP (18,000 dhrys).