Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: RISC MIPS -- Sun vs. VA Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <1777@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 16:08:15 GMT Sender: news@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 143, message 1 of 10 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