* las <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 26 Oct 2000
| But it makes no sense to me to take something that is descriptive and
| give it a name that tells you nothing.
One could say the same thing about metre, litre, gram, Newton, or any other
unit of measure that we use.
[...]
| Now what about computer speed. It is also given in HZ. Since cycles per
| second is referring to sound and waves, what's it doing in computers.
Its the clock frequency of the processor. Ie, 1MHz means that the clock
"ticks" 1 million times per second. Other than that it is a Meaningless
Indicator of Processor Speed.
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