Cromemco landmarks

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Sat Nov 10 08:49:10 2001

At 03:43 PM 11/9/01 -0500, Dave wrote:
>On November 9, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>> 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?
>
> 0.9 VUP, not 0.5.
>
> -Dave

Didn't the uVax II implement some of the original VAX instructions
with emulation? I always wondered what the VUP rating would have
been were they not emulated.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Sat Nov 10 2001 - 08:49:10 GMT