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- From: gideony@microsoft.com (Gideon Yuval)
- Subject: Re: Future of i860 line
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.021712.25853@microsoft.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 02:17:12 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <BtLGIG.3q2@pgroup.com> <TMH.92Aug26230950@doppel.first.gmd.de> <BtM3Mn.2BC@pgroup.com>
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- In article <BtM3Mn.2BC@pgroup.com> lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows) writes:
- ...
- >RISC chip. In fact, at equivalent clock rate with a proper memory system
- >design, I'd happily put the i860-XP as-is up against Alpha, HP, or RS6000,
- >and it would clearly beat the Sparc.
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- In integer SPECmarks per MHz, the 860 is _slower_ than the 486.
- I'd be really surprised if DEC and IBM, without all the X86 dead wood
- on their backs, cannot to a bit better still.
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- Gideon Yuval, gideony@microsoft.com, 206-882-8080 (fax:-883-8101;TWX:160520)
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