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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
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Date: 11 Jul 88 23:03:00 GMT
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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