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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Historical architectural advanc
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Date: 31 Oct 90 01:15:00 GMT
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/* ---------- "Re: Historical architectural advanc" ---------- */
>In article <8139@scolex.sco.COM> seanf (Sean Fagan) writes:
>>Using your fingers to do addition is an incredible performance/price ratio
>>(since price is 0).

Ahhh, but the cost of upgrade from a 10-bit processor to a 12-bit
processor is enormous.