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From: rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Re: Floating point performance & Mr. Mashey's Mythical Mhz
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Date: Sun, 2-Nov-86 01:59:54 EST
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In article <1903@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:

> I must disagree.  Reliability is at least as important as speed.

Right.  But reliability is a measure of the *implementation*, not of
the architecture.  

cheers,

txr