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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: VAX MIPS (was Re: Proposal: Computer History Project)
- Keywords: software, history, computer
- Message-ID: <151oe5INN6ln@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 21:05:09 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.144643.19792@crl.dec.com> <1992Jul25.214508.4312@fasttech.uucp>
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- In article <1992Jul25.214508.4312@fasttech.uucp> zeke@fasttech.uucp (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
- >Aren't SPECmarks computed relative to a VAX 780? Is there still one of these
- >machines somewhere that gets powered up every year or so to run a new set of
- >tests?
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- Of course, there is a VAX 11/780 at the Bureau of Standards, kept under a
- big bell jar filled with inert gas kept at a constant temperature; and
- they turn it on every time somebody needs to compare their VAX 11/780 MIPS
- against the official standard.
- :-), just in case...
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