in the past I was also asked to rate HP3000 system in MIPS ... but this means MEANINGLESS INDICATOR OF PROCESSOR SPEED and is still used in the blue world ;-)
I convinced my mgt that HP rates relational to 947 systems (these are the factors HP communicates).
For HP9000's HP started a different way ... but the HPUX colleaguaes already are gone today so I cannot not ask for details today. [...]52_9Jan199718:38:[log in to unmask]
Jeff wrote:
> Please let me know your results and I'll assemble the final tallies!
Before anyone gets too excited about these "benchmark" results, I
just want to point out that Whetstone is a measure of FLOATING POINT
MATH performance, and thus is likely to be irrelevant to most 3000
applications.
It might be a good way of finding out whether the FPU in your system
actually works or not, which you might otherwise have never known :-)
G.
