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> In-Reply-To: <199609301534.IAA15771@ferrari.sfu.ca> from "Kevin McQuiggin" at Sep 30, 96 08:34:34 am
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> > >Thanks for the info. What's a VUPS unit? I've heard of mips, flops, etc but
> > never VUPS. Some DEC idiosyncracy?
> > >
> > >Hope it isn't a dumb question,
> > >
> > >Kevin
> Kevin,
> VUPS is Vax Units of Performance.
> it is close to MIPS by the pre 1980 definition of MIPS (million instructions
> persecond not the RISC chip! )
> The history is this:
> DEC 2060/KL10 processor was built and tested, we tested it at a 
> rate of 1MIP.  When the vax780 was built we benchmarked it.
> That came out just a little slower than the 10 on our benchmarks.
> at about .9 plus a tick if I recall correctly.
> 
> THis translated to the 780 being less than a mip.  that was a bad thing
> to the purple plague gang (11 and vax mafia at dec at the time) as the
> rest of us processor and system folks called them.  SO, VUPS were invented.
> the KL then ran something greater than a vup.
> 
> That is my geezing recollection, any of the vax or 10 guys might 
> agree or disagree, my brain cells might be failing, I might be 
> being polite, I might not....
> 
> bad bob
> (who now has a score of <1 nano merrill>
> 
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> > ---
> > Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
> > mcquiggi@sfu.ca
> > 
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