In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/10/2005
at 09:22 AM, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It may always have been meaningless, but it was never without a
>definition.
A "definition" that does not define is not a definition. Saying that
it is millions of instructions per second does not define it unless
you say which instructions, in what sequence and with what operands,
or at least provide ground-rules so that the numbers aren't all over
the landscape.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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