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- Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!ucsu!horton.Colorado.EDU!chuj
- From: chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY)
- Subject: Re: Amiga <--> PC diplomacy
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.160432.8653@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1992Jul21.204217.15732@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <711583453snx@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:04:32 GMT
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- In article <711583453snx@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Jul21.204217.15732@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU writes:
- >
- > > That's quite funny, since PC mag did a review on how the 040-25 matches
- > > up to a DX2 486-50, the 486 blew the doors off the 040.
- >Why has the 040 doors? And who cares about a 486 blowing off the doors of a
- >040? Is that significant? Does it say anything about the work one can do with
- >such a beast?
- >
- This was in reply to someone who said differently. It was not meant as
- a remark on which cpu was better.
-
- > > And look at your specs bud!
- >I don't have specs.
- >
- If you need specs, here it is, SPEC mark of 11 for the 040-25 and for
- the 486-50 it was 19.
-
- > > According to BYTE mag, the 040-25 runs with 2.4 MFLOPS, and then
- > > the 486-33 does 2.6 MFLOPS w/o a weitek 4167.
- > > Then look at your MIPS, etc...
- >I don't have MIPS.
- >
- >BTW, wasn't MIPS acronym for Meaningless Instructions Per Second? Wonder what
- >MFLOPS meant though... C'mon guys, what good does this comparing of meaningless
- >numbers do to anyone?
- >
- FLOPS stands for Floating point operations per secound.
-
- >Greetings,
- >Peter Busser
- >---
- >I don't do .sigs
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