Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Can somebody find out the typical MIPS and FLOPS for the following:
> 
> - Commodore 64 (6510 @ ~1 MHz)

Most instructions took from 2 to 5 clock cycles, so I'd venture to say 
that the 6510 ran between .2 and .5 MIPS.  Floating point is implemented 
in software, and since the processor didn't have a hardware multiply 
(and shifts were one bit at a time), it probably took dozens of machine 
cycles for addition/subtraction and hundreds for multiplication and 
division.  I doubt that it ever got much past ten kiloflops, and 
probably averaged lower than that.

Regards,
John

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