Damn. You got me there (I'd nearly prefer suicide than to admit that to you 'proc ;-).
After checking around abit it seems like you are right (not only your links (before you say it)). It's only later MIPS CPU's that are designed the way I was talking about, and the PS1 and PS2 processors are basicly redundant crap licensed away cheaply.
Sorry folks, my mistake.
mips_proc wrote:
One note I'd like to make is that I own an SGI Octane dual R10K 250mhz machine... with a gig of ram... booting from a scsi drive... running IRIX (pretty lite unix) and it dosent come 'close' to beating even a P3 1ghz in terms of raw power..
Me:
How the h**l is that possib... ...no, wait, Both AMD and Intel x86 execute about four instructions per cycle, right? Which means the 250MHz R10K suck, even compared to my own x86.
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I'll just blame it on temporary brain defunct.