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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (169552)8/17/2002 8:15:20 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
"Clock speed has been a measurement standard ever since the microprocessor was invented."

Urr, no it hasn't. Why do you think MIPS, LINPack and SPEC were developed? Clock speed is only useful as a metric when you are comparing processors of the same family and generation. This has been know for a very long time.

And yes, this was an issue from fairly early on with microprocessors. Comparing the performance of a 6502, 6800 or 8080a was even more challenging than comparing a PIII, P4 or Athlon...
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