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From: mpogue@dg.dg.com (Mike Pogue)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MIPS Magazine articles found
Message-ID: <176@dg.dg.com>
Date: 17 May 89 18:43:54 GMT
References: <19847@winchester.mips.COM> <17557@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: uunet!dg!mpogue (Mike Pogue)
Organization: Data General, Westboro, MA.
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In article <17557@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>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."
>
  In fact, I believe that the MIPS people have completed their tests, and will
be publishing the numbers shortly.

  Although there does seem to be a price war about to happen, I suspect that
"price/performance war" is a better term  :)

  With all these rapid architectural changes happening right now, are customers
really able to keep up?  (a rhetorical question....)


Mike Pogue
Data General Corp.

My opinions are my own....