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From: wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 340 vs. Sun 3/80
Message-ID: <920024@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 15 May 89 23:39:00 GMT
References: <3074@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Organization: HP SW Engineering Systems - Palo Alto, CA
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   DEC, HP, and MIPs (the company) are more likely to give more useful
   figures like MVUPS (microVax II Units Per Second).

I believe that VUP is VAX Unit of Processing.  If you make the
assumption that a VAX-11/780 is a 1 MIPS machine, then 1 VUP = 1 MIPS.

Personally, I think that someone should mount a VAX-11/780 on a
platinum-iridium block in Paris and define it to be the SI standard
for MIPS.

wunder