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From: GORRIEDE@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Robert Gorrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Recommendations needed about A2500/30 as research workstation
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Date: 4 Mar 90 16:55:27 GMT
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>   This seems to be a widespread myth among Motorola product users.
>MIPS magazine (now Personal Workstations) has tested a wide variety of
>'386 machines and a few '030 machines, and the '386 machines always
>come out slightly on top (and in computing power/$ they come out way
>on top (of course MIPS has never tested an A2500/30)).
>
>   However, if Motorola's info is accurate, the '040 is faster than an
>equivalently clocked '486.
>
>   Jim
> James Crotinger     comp.sys.amiga@      3/01/90*Recommendations needed about

MIPS = Meaningless Information from Pushy Salesmen

Seriously though, I was under the impression that MIPS is realy only meant
to be used to bench processors of single family.  There is no direct
correlation between the number of instructions executed and the work done.
And, the instructions are not constant from processor to processor.

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