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- From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson)
- Subject: Re: MIPS rating of 486DX2-66 in BYTE
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:16:27 GMT
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- gilligan@cs1.bradley.edu (Edward Henigin) writes:
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- >In <C1F9K4.8LB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson) writes:
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- >>In the newest issue of BYTE magazine they compare a DX2-66 to the
- >>new $4000 SPARC classic. They rathe the DX2-66 at 53 MIPS and
- >>the classic at 58 MIPS. The DX2-66's MIPS _HAS_ to be _TOTALLY_
- >>wrong. [...]
- >>If I had my choice and the money
- >>ID take the classic! [...]
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- >Yeah, but you can't play Wing Commander on the Sparc.
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-
- You have a point, great hardware doesn't sell itself.. Standards sell.
- Imagine everyone the prospect of Games ported to workstations, and some
- that need to run of workstations, networked. We need to open our minds
- to more than $$ figures, because there is some great technology out there
- that we are all missing.
-