melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) (06/03/90)
I heard that Mips is releasing a workstation for $9000 that performs at 25 MIPS. It is suppose to be called Magnum. Is this fact or fiction? -Mike
mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) (06/04/90)
In article <Fd!vu69@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >I heard that Mips is releasing a workstation for $9000 that performs >at 25 MIPS. It is suppose to be called Magnum. Is this fact or >fiction? Well, it's close: 1) The base price of 8MB, diskless, 17" monochrome, RTU for RISC/os, windows, C compiler is $8,990. 2) The mips-rating is unclear: It's 17.8 SPECmarks (19.4 SPEC integer subset). (what we believe) 20 mips on the scale we've always used here (what we believe) 25 mips dhrystone, for whatever that's worth. Depending on whose mips-ratings you use, it's anywhere from 20 to about 33, i.e., if you take each workstation for which SPEC benchmarks exist, and multiply that workstation's mips-rating by the ratio of Magnum's performance on the SPEC integer benchmarks, you get a presumed mips-rating in that range. So much for mips-ratings.... We gnerally quote the SPEC data, and if backed inot a corner, will the others, but the press sometiems quotes selectively... 3) If you follow Workstation Labs' Khornerstonmes, the number is 29000+. 4) Xstones are 91,000 Mono, 39,000 Color. -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc> UUCP: mash@mips.com OR {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash DDD: 408-524-7015, 524-8253 or (main number) 408-720-1700 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086