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From: gregw@otc.oz (Greg Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Goodspeed GS-32 users, anybody out there?
Message-ID: <509@otc.oz>
Date: 30 Nov 88 08:17:59 GMT
References: <67@sopwith.UUCP>
Organization: OTC Development Unit, Australia
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in article <67@sopwith.UUCP>, snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle) says:

> |It's a cute box, but it's slow.  The name "375" comes of having half the
> |power of a Vax 750 (no kidding!) which means it has about 0.25 VAX MIPS.
> |Dhrystone results bear this out.
> 
> Something doesn't compute here.  For most things, a 32016/10Mhz box is
> roughly the same as a VAX 750, not 1/2 of it.  Have you run other benchmarks?
> Dhrystones are a really poor benchmark, IMHO.

While Dhrystones may not reflect all styles of computing, at least they are
deterministic.  Who knows what a MIP is? I feel that the MIP bench mark
lost all meaning when it was discovered that 1 VAX MIP = 0.5 Mythical MIPs,
and some people use machine dependant MIPs, some use VAX MIPs but only say
MIPs, Some say VAX MIPs and mean what we thought a VAX MIP was and some
say VAX MIPs and mean what a VAX MIP really is????????????????

Anyway, to the point. I while ago, I saw a posting asking for detailed
information on drystones achieved by any 32K system.  Has that list been
posted??  Who was it that was doing the collection?

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