Re: TI-H: random email

To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: TI-H: random email
From: "Robert Brack" <reb@netride.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:02:55 -0500
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


If anyone on this list does have a life, tell us where you got it :-))


-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, March 01, 1998 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: random email


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>>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?
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>Do any of us?  :)
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