At 07:14 AM 3/10/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>> >Eh? My first job after finishing my DPhil...
>>
>> Your what?
>
>It's what Oxford and a bunch of other universities call a PhD. They doctor
>us differentlyin Oxford ;-)
You mean you have a PhD? (looks at email headers) And you're wasting it in
Microsoftland???
>I also cheated slightly (and I'm surprised that other old-hands didn't pick
>me up on it). Although the clock ticked at 40MHz, it took at least four
>ticks to do anything --- just as the 4MHz Z80A did.
Why bother calling it 40MHz then? Why not call it 10MHz? Marketing, make it
seem 4 times faster than it is? Even those greedy crooks at Intel don't do
that...
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