Sun 3 vs uVAXII floating point speed....

[Akin Ozselcuk]

Hello,

I am posting this article on behalf of a friend of mine who
is planning to buy either a Sun3 or a VAX Station 2000
(a watered down uVAXII)

He is planning to do a lot of number crunching by using f77.

Here is the problem: 

1. uVAXII 's have 0.9 VAX mips

2. Sun 3's have 3 Mips

My question :

Sun 3 seems very impressive in this respect BUT CAN WE SAY THAT
Sun 3 IS 3 TIMES FASTER IN FLOATING POINT CALCULATIONS THAN uVAX


HOW ABOUT FLOATING POINT SPEEDS OF Sun386i vs uVAXII?


Any comments about these 3 systems for heavy number crunching
applications will be appreciated.

Thanks.
      ..
AkIn  Ozselcuk
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ao at cevax.berkeley.edu
Dept of Civil Engineering,                    Experientia Docet
UC Berkeley