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  From: Michael Pearson <alcaron@ozemail.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:49:19 +0930

Re: Bogomips

* Matthew Mills (Matthew.Mills@santos.com.au) wrote:
> BOGUS it must be!.  ......   my AMD K6-2 400 seems to be miles better than an
> Athlon (K7) 550  I get 799 BogoMIPS  maybe that's why it runs so hot, must have
> got me a special one!! :-)

This is normal behaviour for a K6-2 CPU. My K6-2 333 has a bogomips rating of
666.83. However, my K6-2 333 is not double the speed of a P2 333, rather, it
is slightly slower in floating point calculations.

Also, the early Pentiums had a bogomips rating of HALF their CPU megahertz.

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