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

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From: Alan Hart
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 12:46

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In article <12160034@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> boyne@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Art Boyne) writes:
>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


I think it's worse than that. Billion *used* to mean 10^12 here
but now means 10^9, as I understand it. I don't think "milliard" is in
common usage either - I've heard it maybe once or twice.

Alan Hart
Cambridge, UK

amh15@cus.cam.ac.uk

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