Cromemco landmarks

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Fri Nov 9 14:12:12 2001

M H Stein skrev:

Just for the record, I've never heard of Cromemco.

>As to the performance figures vs. DEC, they were taken from Datamation & Unix
>World magazines and a UNIX USENET study, this being in late 1986.
>Interestingly enough, Dhrystone benchmarks are:

>Cromix CS420: 3703
>VAX11/785 2136
>VAX11/780 1662
>MicroVAX-II 1612
>VAX11/750 1091
>IBM RT 1333

>While the Whetstone scores make the MicroVAX look a lot better:

>CS420 1,050,000
>MicroVAX II 877,000
>VAX11/780 476,000
>IBM RT 200,000
>Cromemco Z80 7,000

Isn't this rather odd? The MicroVAX II is supposed to be 0,5 VUP, right? So
what have the DEC engineers done to make it just as fast in the Dhrystone and
even faster than the 11/780 in the Whetstone benchmarks?

--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
"I'm all man underneath my skirt."
    Boy George
Received on Fri Nov 09 2001 - 14:12:12 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:34:14 BST