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From: jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Macintosh Portable and IIci Intro
Summary: How many MIPS?
Keywords: MIPS, MegaFlops
Message-ID: <12031@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 24 Sep 89 18:56:50 GMT
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>-  Faster clock speed:  Motorola 25 MHz 68030 and 68882.
>The combination of the 68030 microprocessor and the 68882
>floating-point coprocessor running at 25 MHz represents the
>most significant new feature of the Macintosh IIci. (The
>Macintosh IIcx and IIx run at 16 MHz.)

	Can someone translate this into MIPs and even better MegaFLOPs?
In order to convince people to get a MAC instead of SPARC or MIPS-VaxStation
I need to show them that Macs aren't slow!

	Thanks
	jdm@euclid.colorado.edu