Charles Craft <chucksea@MINDSPRING.COM> wrote:
> Jim Turley wrote:
> > <snip>
> > "Not so many years ago DEC's VAX 11/780 was reckoned the first
> > computer to execute 1 million instructions per second. Now a 4MIPS
> > microcontroller costs less than a cup of coffee and is so small you
> > might accidentally inhale it. "
> > <snip>
>
> It's a 1 MIP chip, right?

To be painfully accurate, it's a 1 MIPS chip. ;-)

It wouldn't be so bad if Jim hadn't repeated the mistake several times
throughout the article. He's quite a character, and often plays fast and
loose with the details in order to make some point or another in the most
dramatic way possible.

-- Dave Tweed

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