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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Novice question:  measuring speed
Keywords: Has this gotten silly enough yet?
Message-ID: <3278@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 91 13:44:57 GMT
References: <645@ssdc?> <Mar.18.21.39.27.1991.17252@pilot.njin.net> <1991Mar19.090929@IASTATE.EDU> <5644@pta.oz.au>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <5644@pta.oz.au> johnz@pta.oz.au (John Zornig) writes:

| I vote for the DropStone, This would be calculated 

  Surely you mean dhropstone. A benchmark without an 'h' would never fly
(I didn't say that, did I?).
-- 
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"