From: Bill Broadley (broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu)
Date: 06/22/93 

From: broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Bill Broadley)
Subject: Re: MIPS R3000 board project; update.
Date: 22 Jun 1993 07:17:49 GMT

> only a little slower than a more expensive R3000 then what's the point?

As I posted elsewhere in the thread, for heavy floating point a 12.5 Mhz
mips 2000 is faster then a 486-66.

So of course the 40 Mhz mips 3000 is a substantial upgrade.