VAX MIPS

benchmark (Or VAX Unit of Performance, VUP) The processing

power normally attributed to a Digital Equipment Corporation

VAX 11/780. Future VAX systems were rated according to this

scale (e.g. VAX 8350's being 2.7 VUPs per CPU). A MicroVAX

II is normally associated with 0.9 VUPs and at a later time

the MicroVUP was coined to rate VAX workstations. The use

of the VUP by Digital Equipment Corporation has been replaced

with more standard benchmarks (SPECint and SPECfp) in the

DEC Alpha processor systems.

(1996-08-22)