System/6000 statistics cf. other machines

[J. Eric Townsend]

In article <8834 at boring.cwi.nl> dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>In article <4177 at ibmpa.UUCP> uunet!ibmsupt!eclarke (Eric S. Clarke) writes:
> > > Can do 1 floating point, one int and one branch instruction in one
> > > cycle.  
> > Actually the machine can do two floating point, one int and two branch 
> > intstuctions in one cycle.

You should qualifiy that.  The only way you can do two floats at once
is to use the Mult/Add instruction.  You cannot do two mults, or two
adds at the same time.

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