In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said: > Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:40:41 -0500 > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/10/2006 > at 01:11 AM, Phil Payne <[log in to unmask]> said: > > >http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/?title=Million_instructions_per_second > > >"Analyst firm Isham Research has lately coined the term kMIPS > > What's wrong with GIPS, other than the inherent meaninglessness of > quoting IPS? > For YA abomination, I lately noticed that the z/Series PoOP makes a statement to the effect that bit 31 of the TOD clock is incremented every megamicrosecond (paraphrased to avoid use of a Greek character).
A megamicrosecond is, of course, about 1.05 seconds. Except in SI. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
