How Many VAXes Fit in the Palms of Your Hands?
John L. Henning · IEEE Micro · 2021
During the early history of microprocessors, benchmarks were of interest to customers and important to marketing, but results and methods were not comparable. For example, a 1985 Performance SummaryaaThe 1985 Performance Summary is the third edition of a glossy, typeset, well-organized document with 164 pages and many tables and graphs. It includes work by multiple performance groups at a now-defunct computer manufacturer. The full title is not provided here because it is labeled “ For Internal Use Only,” although one suspects that customers may have routinely seen copies or excerpts. from a vendor of popular minicomputers contains results from a variety of benchmarks, with a variety of weaknesses as follows.