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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CISC strikes back.
Message-ID: <2159@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 10 May 88 05:54:15 GMT
References: <30872@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <9337@apple.Apple.Com> <31124@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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Keywords: System/370 CISC 100MHz

In article <31124@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> chuck@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons) writes:
....
>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.

Sigh.  Not this year. (Like I said when "brash micros vs Big Iron" was
the topic.)  We'll just have to hang around while in the 25-45% range....

But then, none of our CPU performance graphs claimed crossover of
VLSI RISC micro versus mainframe uniprocessor until 1989. :-)

More seriously, thanx for posting the numbers: it's good to get 
some Big Iron numbers showing up in this newsgroup.
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