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- From: goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin)
- Subject: Re: MicroVax
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.200842.24117@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 20:06:38 GMT
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- In article <2aQeefj010n@st-andrews.ac.uk>, gta@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham Allan) writes...
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- >As far as I can remember, a VAXstation 3100 does about 3 MIPs, the newer
- >VAXstation 3100/76 does nearer 10. For whatever the MIPs figure is worth...
- >I would guess a VAX has better FP support than an ARM3.
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- I'm not sure if a VAXstation 3100 is faster than an Archimedes, at least in
- terms of integer arithmetic. In terms of floating point, the VAX is much
- faster.
-
- Pete Goodwin
- goodwin@system.enet.dec.com
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