Re: TI-H: random email

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: random email
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 20:27:29 -0700
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


>In a message dated 98-03-01 15:20:20 EST, you write:
>
><< It is interesting to note that a 30-06 rifle bullet travels at 2800
> ft/sec. which means that it takes 3.5E-4 seconds to travel one foot. The
> minimum number of Mhz required for a CPU to go faster than a speeding
> bullet would be (1 insturction)/(3.5E-4 sec.) or 2857 insturctions per
> second. Asuming a 32 bit instruction that means that a minimum of .92Mhz
> (thats right .92 not 92) to go faster than a speeding bullet. All of
> this to say Big Deal our clacs can alrredy do that. Assuming 6Mhz and an
> 8 bit instucrtion the calc can preform 262 caculations in the time it
> takes a speeding bullet to travel one foot. If it were a 32bit machine
> it could do 66 calculations in that same amount of time.
>
> -mj <matt.johnson@wmich.edu>
>  >>
>Ummm....pardon me for asking, but do you have any social life at all?

Do any of us?  :)