> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> bash-3.00$ bc >> scale=9 >> 299792458000 <-- c cm/sec > > It's been a while, but I think that figure for C is metres/sec. >
The great well spring of all knowledge says : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light "In metric units, c is exactly 299,792,458 metres per second" geez .. its hard to believe I did post grad work in physics. ah well .. the chip is damn cold and fast and there just isn't a whole lot of time for a signal to move from point A to point B even it were at 90% c in a superconductor at absolute zero while sitting on the event horizon of a black hole. I don't think we are going to see a 32 GHz processor in the next year or two and I think that was my point if I could do simple math. :-) I do think we will see massive multi-core UltraSparc processors complete with floating point units in that time though. -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
