On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:46:14 -0700, Dean Kent wrote:
>
>   ...  a Dell Precision Workstation 330 system with a 1.4GHz P4 in
>Nov 2000 the SPECint_rate was 5.80.   In June 2006, a Dell Precision
>Workstation 390 with a 2.93GHz Intel Core Duo processor was 63.6.
>Obviously one cannot make a direct comparison between MIPS and SPEC rate,

You are confusing MIPS and MHz.  MIPS may be meaningless, but MHz means 
far less.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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