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From: dick@ccb.ucsf.edu (Dick Karpinski)
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Subject: Re: Chen's claim
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Date: 24 Mar 88 22:26:20 GMT
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Summary: Looks like a typo to me.

In article <4449@megaron.arizona.edu> lm@megaron.arizona.edu (Larry McVoy) writes:
>Today I read an article (in Time magazine, I'll admit) that quoted Chen
>as saying "Five years from now we should be at 100 billion gigaflops."

It would seem most likely that the statement should rather read:
"Five years from now we should be at 100 billion (or giga) flops."
(Cray's new machine is said to do >10 gigaflops.)

Dick
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