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From: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXt Performance/Price
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Date: 11 Apr 89 01:24:29 GMT
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In-reply-to: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu's message of 7 Apr 89 23:27:00 GMT


In article <2648@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>	- FLP performance is miserable, and prevents competition with
>	  even an 80386/7 system. Some relief is on the horizon: Weitek
>	  offers an flp chip for use in a 68030. I haven't found out
>	  details yet, though. Maybe NeXt should bundle this chip instead
>	  of the 68882?

This seems to be where the RISC machines excel. Most do 2-3-4 MFLOP
(Linpack). Lot's of workstations have been delivering mini performance
in integer computing. With RISC we are getting there with flp, too.

/Lars
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