Re: Macs + Quadras obsolete? was: How fast is the P5 chip?

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From: Art Boyne
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 14:25

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, blong@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Brandon C Long) writes:

>   GIPS???
>   What ever happened to BIPS (Billions of instructions per second)?

The problem is that "billion" means 1,000 million in the U.S., but
1,000,000 million in the U.K.  "Giga" is unambiguous.

(The word for 1,000 million in the U.K. is "milliard").

Art Boyne, boyne@hplvla.lvld.hp.com

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From: boyne@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Art Boyne)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 14:25:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Macs + Quadras obsolete? was: How fast is the P5 chip?
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