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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: 80x87 emulation
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Date: 31 Jan 89 15:09:00 GMT
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>| And the speed increase if great if you need it. Yesterday we got our
>| new spiffy $40000 DEC Vaxstation 3100 connected to our Ethernet,
>| and I was able to run the Dhrystone. At 4800 it is half as fast
>| as the $6000 Dell 310. Using the Whetstone floating benchmark, the
>| Dell is 20% faster than the VAX. Without it - I rebooted before finishing.

>I can't quite see you Dhrystone numbers for the 3100,
>though. I got 24194 no registers, 26316 with. This is in line with all
>other results I (and others at my site) got. Could you have used the
>real time instead of the CPU and had a background load?

I boo-boo'ed about the Vax. It is a 3500, not a 3100. But is is $40000. 

(Is that 3100 the new MIPS RISC box? 25000 sounds right for it.)