>I share your distaste for the term. I like: "Meaninless Indication of >Processor Speed'.
>What's cool is that is not very far from the actuality Actually, it is. >In fairness, it -is- a number that a high manager can use to reasonbly >quantify things. I disagree. The number means nothing. And, when IBM first went to MSUs, it meant less. Especially with the so-called 'technology dividend'. LSPR, which they use to set MSU values, does not test/check everything. A statistic based on invalid assumptions is just so much air. November 2004: Don't be Misled by MIPS http://tinyurl.com/yqa4yy http://preview.tinyurl.com/yqa4yy - Ted MacNEIL [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
