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- From: mash@mash.wpd.sgi.com (John R. Mashey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Is it Sunset yet?!?!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.015612.17155@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 01:56:12 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.203033.8638@cc.umontreal.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan6.203033.8638@cc.umontreal.ca>, soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard) writes:
- |> Hello Suners and SGIers,
- |>
- |> OK! I couldn't think of anything else for a title... anyways... on
- |> with better and bigger things...
- |>
- |> Having the January 1993 BYTE almost in front of me... there is an
- |> ad from Sun showing their SPARCstation LX at 59 mips. I know! I
- |> know! I know! Mips are meaningless... but still... can be really
- |> impressive!
- |>
- |> My question to you is this: What does SGI has to say about that
- |> workstation? Does SGI has anything similar to it? And for the same
- |> price? We have many Indigoes here at the University of Montreal...
- |> and I am more than satisfied with their performance...
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- Most similar product = original Indigo.
- As measured by SPEC92, both int and FP performance are grossly
- similar.
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- The mips-rating comes from Dhrystone, and is completely useless.
- The mips/SPECint rating has been crawling upward; at this point,
- it's something like 2:1 or 3:1 for the SS LX.
-
- Ignore mips-ratings & dhrystone-mips; even the person who invented
- the Dhrystone in the first place has long ago said, in public, many times,
- that it has long since outlived its usefulness...
- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
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