On Wed, 15 May 1996, jim bell wrote:
Reminds me of an old joke: "This computer's so fast it does an infinite loop in 5 seconds!"
a friend of mine once said his 486 (when most of us were on 286's) was so fast it would process commands before he typed them..
i notice they're still using the encyclopedia/second benchmark..
It's an old habit, I suppose. It's hard to explain "one trillion", at least to non-tech types. A good modern replacement might be to say, "200 CDROM's per second", except that even today most people don't know how much storage a CDROM represents. "16 million one-way phone calls" is also helpful as a benchmark.
well, maybe we should update this measure to meet the range like they did with the bel.. since an encyclopedia per second (eps) is a useless measure, maybe we should institute the mega-encyclopedia per second, or `meps' which would be 1024x30volumes of text.. `this little number over here'll do 30 meps!'.. bri.. --bdodds@jyacc.com brian dodds, systems administration, jyacc, inc. wellesley, ma --617.431.7431x125 opinions expressed within are not necessarily my own or anyone elses..