From: brian dodds <jyacc!aspen!bdodds@uunet.uu.net>
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 11:53:39 +0800
To: jim bell <aspen!uunet!pacifier.com!jimbell@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: Re: Past one terabit/second on fiber
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On Wed, 15 May 1996, jim bell wrote:

> Reminds me of an old joke:  "This computer's so fast it does an infinite 
> loop in 5 seconds!"

a friend of mine once said his 486 (when most of us were on 286's) was so 
fast it would process commands before he typed them..

> >i notice they're still using the encyclopedia/second benchmark..
> 
> It's an old habit, I suppose.  It's hard to explain "one trillion", at least 
> to non-tech types.  A good modern replacement might be to say, "200 CDROM's 
> per second", except that even today most people don't know how much storage 
> a CDROM represents.  "16 million one-way phone calls" is also helpful as a 
> benchmark.

well, maybe we should update this measure to meet the range like they did 
with the bel.. since an encyclopedia per second (eps) is a useless 
measure, maybe we should institute the mega-encyclopedia per second, or 
`meps' which would be 1024x30volumes of text.. `this little number over 
here'll do 30 meps!'..

				bri..

--bdodds@jyacc.com
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opinions expressed within are not necessarily my own or anyone elses..