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From: raj@hpindwa.cup.hp.com (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Novice question:  measuring speed
Message-ID: <36230003@hpindwa.cup.hp.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 02:31:36 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino CA
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>>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.
>

Perhaps it was using an FPA - Falling Processor Accelerator.


groan ;-)

rick jones