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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MIPS Magazine articles found
Message-ID: <17557@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 05:16:25 GMT
References: <19847@winchester.mips.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <19847@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes
[quoting MIPS magazine on D/G's 88000-based w/s]
>"But, we can say that this is the fastest workstation MIPS has tested.
>Although Data General expects to see a 30 percent improvement with the
>newer, native-mode version of the C compiler, our performance numbers
>for this machine were faster than those for the DECstation 3100, DEC's
>very fast new RISC-based workstation described elsewhere in this issue.
>We will publish benchmark results on the Maverick as soon as Data General's
>technical people are satisfied that the languages and other systems software
>are mature enough to produce results representative of the production machine."

It should be interesting to see.  It is worth noting that the DS3100 is
about as low-end as you can get with a MIPS [the company, not the
magazine] R2000 system.  I believe the list price is around $12k (which
gets you an 8 MB workstation with a small 1k x 1k display); I expect it
to drop rapidly.  If DEC have any sense they will put out some R3000
based systems soon too.  Right now there is a big market race between
DEC and Sun, with D/G about to enter into the fray.  (Three cheers for
the pending price war :-) )
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