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- From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
- Subject: Re: Cyber Speeds
- In-Reply-To: uzun@crash.cts.com's message of 7 Jan 93 19:56:10 GMT
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- Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.
- References: <1993Jan07.115610.21080@crash>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:07:55 GMT
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- >>>>> On 7 Jan 93 19:56:10 GMT, uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun) said:
- Roger> I went to undergraduate school at the Univ of IL(83), and to
- Roger> graduate school at San Diego State Univ.(85). Both campuses
- Roger> had CDC Cyber machines I used in a limited capacity.
- Roger> I recall I was impressed with the speeds of the machines
- Roger> at the time, but I do not recall the exact models that were
- Roger> used. They were 1's complement machines, and used 60 or perhaps
- Roger> it was 63 bit integers.
- Roger> I am curious, if anyone knows, what the performance of the
- Roger> Cyber series of computers was in the mid 1980's.
- Roger> How would their integer or FP performance compare to a
- Roger> 50 Mhz 80486, in running a single, CPU intensive task.
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- I remember old (1972) CDC6400, which needed 0.6us for 60-bit integer
- add (register to register). Because 80486 doesn't have 60-bit registers
- and only 7 32-bit registers can be used for arithmetic operations, the
- old CYBER can show better speed than 50MHz 80486 if most of operations
- can be done on its registers and require more than 32-bit precision.
- Probably an example may be converting word(s) from binary to octal
- or reverse, on CYBER it can be done by straight code without loop and
- without processing every byte separately (quess what way :-).
- Of course CDC computers made in the 1980'th were much better (10x?).
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