Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!amdahl!chuck 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 Lines: 17 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