1.706 VUPS! Wow! That's a whole 70% faster than a VAX-11/780!!!
What performance! :-)

Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:22:29AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 
>>Probably not a whole lot better... simh is single-threaded, so it'll 
>>only really use one CPU, and there's probably not much speed difference 
>>to SimH between the same MHz PPC G3 and UltraSparcII.  Almost 
>>definately no more than 50% better, and the UltraSparc might actually 
>>be worse (for CPU intensive tasks).  Sun Ultrasparc machines - 
>>especially the Exy00 enterprise machines - are built for I/O 
>>performance, not CPU horsepower.  
> 
> 
> oh, i know all about 3500s, and didn't expect it to be all that much faster. ;)
> 
> and it wasn't!!
> 
> VAX MIPS rating =      1.706 
> 
> -brian

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