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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Novice question:  measuring speed
Message-ID: <3275@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 91 18:09:09 GMT
References: <645@ssdc?> <Mar.18.21.39.27.1991.17252@pilot.njin.net>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <Mar.18.21.39.27.1991.17252@pilot.njin.net> 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.

  On what planet?
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
         but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"