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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: i860 CPU information
Keywords: i860 N10
Message-ID: <15240@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 89 17:41:06 GMT
References: <1895@oakhill.UUCP> <175@kahuna.UUCP>
Reply-To: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
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In article <175@kahuna.UUCP> newton@kahuna.UUCP (Mike Newton) writes:
>In article <1895@oakhill.UUCP> tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson) writes:
>>2)  The ISSCC paper indicates a Dhrystone _1.1_ rating of 105,000 Dhrystones
>>    at 50 MHz.  Why was the 1.1 version used?  

Despite the existence of Dhrystone 2.1, it turns out that most people,
seeing unlabeled Dhrystones, think it's 1.1, if only because when
you backtrack what they meant, that's what you find.  At least it was
labeled, and their performance document gives nubmers for both,
and they have a typical ratio.  [Now, I still find the number puzzling, but..]
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