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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Moto comparison [analogy] was: Where is everyone???
Message-ID: <6565@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 88 03:22:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: winchest.6565
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Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
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In article <1897@puff.cs.wisc.edu> operator@puff.WISC.EDU (Operator) writes:
....
>does this mean that the soon to be announced ecl mips chips, from Bit, lets
>call it the R9000, should fit in at:
>
>	mips R9000	==	Unreleased Lockheed Spy Plane
>
>on further inspection it's obvious that the analogies stated above need
>adjustment, I suggest..
> 
>    TI-58 calc 	<10 drystones at ??Mhz	  ==	hot air baloon, 10 Mph
>    mot '030 	8k  drystones at 25Mhz**  ==	P-51 Mustang, Mach .6
>    nsc '532	15k drystones at 25Mhz**  ==	Phantom F-4, Mach 1.6+
>    fuji sparc	25K drystones at 25Mhz**  ==	F-16, Mach 2+
>    moto 88000	34K drystones at 25Mhz**  ==	F-15, Mach 2+ (bigger load)
>    mips R3000 	42K drystones at 25Mhz    ==	Lockheed Blackbird, Mach 3+
>    mips R9000 135K drystones at 80Mhz*** ==	Lockheed Spy Plane, Mach 6+ ***

Well, everybody knows we're doing this, but they aren't called R9000s;
and they don't quite do 135K Dhrys; they also won't be announced soon
either, so the analogy is not too bad.  They will be fast, but not fast
enough to be called a starship Enterprise...
-- 
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