Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!izimbra!dsc From: dsc@izimbra.CSS.GOV (manic pop thrill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MAC 88000 Summary: sigh, sparc may not be the chip of the future Message-ID: <18549@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 11 Jul 88 23:03:00 GMT References: <261@hodge.UUCP> <370STORKEL@RICE> Sender: usenet@uunet.UU.NET Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: the camper van beethoven appreciation society Lines: 10 In article <370STORKEL@RICE> STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) writes: >the Sun 4 with 10 MIPS performance is here NOW, using the SPARC architecture. i believe this is the number claimed by sun for certain integer-intensive benchmarks. check out some of the numbers posted every so often in comp.arch to get the feel of a sun-4's performance on a more general (and perhaps more realistic) job mix. the processor often turns out to more like 6 to 7 mips rather than 10. dsc