Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Subject: Re: Novice question: measuring speed Message-ID: <1991Mar19.052828.20842@Think.COM> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA References: <645@ssdc?> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 05:28:28 GMT In article gould@pilot.njin.net (Brian Jay Gould) writes: >The only real way to measure the speed of a system is to drop >it from a building and calculate 42 feet per second squared. Wow, that's a fast computer! I don't even expect the Connection Machine to do better than 32 f/s^2. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar