---- On 9 Nov 2001 21:12:12, Iggy Drougge (optimus_at_canit.se)
wrote:
> 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
>
>
IIRC the MicroVaxII was 0.9 VUP.
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