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From: chuck@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CISC strikes back.
Message-ID: <31124@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 8 May 88 09:31:47 GMT
References: <30872@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <9337@apple.Apple.Com>
Reply-To: chuck@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale  CA
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Keywords: System/370 CISC 100MHz

In article <9337@apple.Apple.Com> bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case) writes:
>In article <30872@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> mat@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Mike Taylor) writes:
>
>    [Lots of good information about the 5990, impressive sounding!!!]
>
>Good God man, enough of this drivel; dhrystones, damnit, I want dhrystones!
>:-) :-) :-)
>
>[From "Breaking Away:"  "I want American food, damnit, I want French Frys."]

We just got dhrystone 2.0 results hot off the iron.  The bottom line
is that we can do 74000 dhrystones using our current C compiler and
91000 dhrystones using our experimental GNU C compiler.

And just in time too.  MIPS was starting to get a little bit too close.

-- Cheers, Chuck