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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Thank you C= Folks!!!
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Date: 11 Dec 90 08:41:03 GMT
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In <16427@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <90336.212655JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
>>In article <16151@cbmvax.commodore.com>, Dave Haynie's .sig quote says:
>
>>>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>>>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>>>                      ONLY 50 MILES TO GO
>>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>(begin literary interpretation mode)
>
>>Might "MILES" be interpreted to mean "days" or "a short period of time"
>>or "a short distance"?  
>
>How about "MILES".  I suppose I could have said "KILOMETERS", a more exacting
>measurement.

So.. does this mean that we have hardware based English <-> metric conversion
in the future of the Amiga? Does 'more exacting' mean that we can expect a more
accurate floating point coprocessor for the 68030 based machines?

>>And then we get to figure out what Dave might be speaking of....  
>
>My new car.  See, I got this great new car, ....

Aha! Another unspecified processor coming? Hmmm...

>and had a terrible breakin period to wait through before I could try out the
> performance.  Frustrating. 

New hardware is always like that. Did ye finally get fully debugged silicon?

> You wouldn't want to get a shiny new 68030 system, only to find out that you had
>to stay below 1 MIPS for the first 300 billion instructions.  But since then,
>I have achieved 0-60 in about 6.3 seconds, and I'm working on 138 MPH.

Let's see now... 0-60 in 6.3 seconds... fairly high end, especially for road
cars.. .translating this to SPECmarks.... Hmmm....

-larry

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