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From: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
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Subject: Re: Selling through Businessland
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Date: 1 Apr 89 01:40:35 GMT
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In article <689@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying an 88000 isn't faster than a 68030 on
>real work; I really don't know.  But the obvious calculation of
>
>	    17MIPS / 5MIPS = 3.4 times faster
>
>is wrong, isn't it?  Or is that 17 MIPS figure normalized to VAX MIPS?

Well, I don't know about the 88k, but with Sun3/Sun4, this type of
calculation is actually correct. Most suppliers measure there MIPS
numbers with some kind of benchmark, so they are *supposed* to be VAX
MIPS.

Of course, there are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks......

/Lars
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Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!iesd!fischer
Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sci., University of Aalborg
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
			-- Arthur C. Clarke