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From: leech@unc.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: Marketing MIPS
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Date: 10 Feb 88 04:03:45 GMT
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In article <9741@tekecs.TEK.COM> andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes:
$	"the model number, as well as the "marketing mips" gets stamped
$	on only at the end."
$Strange.  Around here, the "marketing mips" get stamped on before the
$engineering starts.

    What happens when serendipity strikes and the real mips exceed
the marketing claims? Are all your ads rewritten? (.5 :-)
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be
      resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working.''
	- Kenneth Grahame, _The Wind in the Willows_