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- From: jvm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jack McClurg)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: VAX MIPS (was Re: Proposal: Computer History Project)
- Message-ID: <8840076@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 03:20:51 GMT
- References: <151oe5INN6ln@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- > >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?
- >
- > 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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- Of course. This machine is known as the Platinum VAX.
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- Jack McClurg
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