Michael@sri-unix (07/14/82)
I received an article preprint from David Patterson at Berkeley concerning performance of the 432. It was supposed to appear in Computer Architecture News, vol. 10, no. 4, June 1982, pp. 17-26. I assume that it was indeed published. The tests they ran compared VAX, 68000, 8086, and 432. I suggest that you take a look at this. The numbers they came up with are quite interesting. Michael T. Howard MTHoward at PARC-MAXC
kenner (07/17/82)
#R:sri-unix:-209600:cmcl2:7300001:000:328 cmcl2!kenner Jul 16 12:07:00 1982 I think that there may be something wrong with the 68000 performance figures given. They are: 8 MhZ 68000 = .6 VAX 16 MhZ 68000 = 1.75 VAX I don't see how a 16 MhZ ANYTHING can more than twice as fast as the corresponding 8 MhZ part. I would expect AT MOST twice as fast. At least the two figures above should be checked.