In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/10/2006
at 12:51 PM, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The idea behind kMIPS (and I agree it's an abortion) was to provide a
>scalable nmber that would get us away from the apparent precision of
>the five-digit numbers regularly thrown around when discussing, e.g.,
>z9 performance.
Google for "SI units".
--
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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