Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!jdm 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 References: <34888@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 12 >- 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