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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

