On Friday, 10/06/2006 at 08:37 GMT, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >OBVIOUSLY, MIPS is singluar, even it it isn't a noun. It is an adjective. > > Is it an adjective in the sentence: > > The processor is/has 200 MIPS?
[Sorry - I'm having too much fun to stop.] "The processor has 200 million instructions per second." Hmmm....very existential.... While I can make that sentence mean something, it isn't what you intended. The processor *has* MIPS, but it *executes* 200 million instructions per second. But it would never "execute 200 MIPS" - that's just wrong on SO many levels. Not to mention violent. :-) I'll be glad when Saturday gets here. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
