PolyModular Standards

Ethan Duni eduni at ucsd.edu
Fri May 7 20:23:12 CEST 1999


>> >  Usually, we'd express processor speed in MHz (megahertz), but a
>> > processor running at 1 mHz (millihertz) would truly be ridiculously
>> > slow...:-)
>
>So, a 1 MHz 6502 is quite OK, however, a 1 mHz 6502 (that would
>process one instruction every millionth second, or roughly 1 every
>eleventh day) would be silly. Better watch those prefixes! :-)

-you mean every thousands of a second.  millionth of a second would be uHz
(where that u is the greek letter mnu).

Better watch those prefizes! :-)

Ethan




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