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From: wolpert@hpisla.UUCP (David Wolpert)
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Subject: Re: Novix Forth chip seen at Rochester Conference
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 12:24:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 12:24:00 1985
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# Written  8:30 am  Jun 17, 1985 by larryh@tekcbi.UUCP in net.arch

>...at
>a rate of approximately 10 Million Forth primitives per second (at a clock
>rate of 8 MHz).

  Amazing!
  (a.k.a. Unbelievable!)

>...the
>following must be taken with a killogram of NaCl....

  So, I think, should the preceding.
  Unless I am missing something, even an *extremely* complex processor
  could execute only 8 "Million Forth primitives per second (at a clock
  rate of 8 MHz)."

David Wolpert
              Hewlett-Packard Company,  Instrument Systems Lab
              P O Box 301 - Loveland, Colorado - 80539 (USMail)
              {*!}{hp*!}hpisla!wolpert (un*x)
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