7 Jan
1998
7 Jan
'98
3:10 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
With the current battle between RISC and CISC, MIPS now really is
"Meaningless Information Provided by Salesman". Technically, by the
current philosophy, an 8080 is a CISC processor. Go figure.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
I've gotten back to looking into getting the my VAXstation up and running.
This has gotten me to thinking, how many MIPS is a VUP?
What's a MIPS, or more particularly, what's an 'Instruction'.
AFAIK, the VUP was defined by the VAX 11/780 being exactly 1 VUP. Now,
the 11/780 executed about 0.5 million (VAX) instructions per second, but
I've heard it said that because the VAX instruction set was so CISC, a
VAX instruction was worth 2 of anybody elses ;-), so 1 VUP ~= 1 MIPS.