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From: abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
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Subject: Re: RISC  MIPS -- Sun vs. VA
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In article <1688@brazos.Rice.edu>, by hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick):
> In the Unix marketplace, MIPS normally means performance that many times
> that of a VAX 11/780, which is essentially the same as a MicroVAX 1. This
> led to talk of gold-plating a 780 and giving it to the NBS as the Offical
> MIP.  MIPS are normally evaluated by trying a set of benchmarks on both a
> VAX and the machine involved.  (I suspect that these days they probably do
> the VAX tests on a newer VAX and then divide by DEC's MVUP rating.  MVUP
> is performance related to the MicroVAX 1.)

a 780 is NOT equivalent to a MVI, a MVII is about 90% of a 11/780. There
are both VUP and MVUP ratings being used, just to confuse things

Art Stine
Sr Network Engineer
Clarkson U
ABStine@CLVMS.Clarkson.Edu