On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:31:18 -0500, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > >>Intel Core i7 at 177,730 MIPs/sec >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second > > That's a six core processor running at a 3.3 GHz clock rate. That > translates to each core completing about 9 instructions per clock > cycle. I am skeptical.
Not to mention those square seconds... -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
