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From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The Killer Micro From Hell
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Date: 30 Dec 89 06:25:39 GMT
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In article <1989Dec28.000031.14774@oracle.com> csimmons@oracle.UUCP (Charles Simmons) writes:
>The comparison would be slightly more interesting if an Amdahl 5990
>were compared to the R6000.  For scalar processing, Amdahl mainframes
>are (were?) generally considered the fastest obtainable...

I am never one to pass up a chance to collect data...  Lets do it!
Has anyone got access to an Amdahl 5990 with a decent C compiler?

brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp