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From: tgg@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Translating 64-bit addresses
Message-ID: <780026@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 08:58:49 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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|As all who have implemented RS232 can attest, standards are meant to be
|ignored when convenient... long live the mho!

Of course, the SI unit of conductance is the Siemen (S), not the mho. The 
unit of time is the second (s). Unfortunately people often get it wrong
and specify, for example, DRAM access times in nS. This is equivalent
to specifying their weight as being x metres.

OK, so notes is a quick informal medium where mistakes are tolerated. But 
shipping products which get this detail wrong makes me wonder how many
how many other details they got wrong...