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- From: kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey)
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- Subject: Re: Speed: 68040 vs. 68060
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 15:30:45 GMT
- Organization: Institute Of Studies For Advanced Amiga Usage
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- Bernie Lofaso posted the following:
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- : In general, MIPS numbers are still fairly useless, even VAX MIPS. The
- : industry has moved to quoting SPEC numbers (specINT, specFLOAT, etc.)
- : which compare performance for specific tasks or task mixes.
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- and strangely give higher marks to Intel processors than they should ;-)
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- alan
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