They meant "and carries out up to 2 parallel operations each second".. The
editor must have gotten confused and multiplied those two numbers together.
A Pentium III can issue and return two instructions per cycle. An Athlon can
issue and return three, basically.
500 x 2 = 1000
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Tymes" <wingcat@pacbell.net>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: The Last Computer
> Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> > So the ultimate laptop, one that has converted all its mass-energy to
> > radiation, would be able to carry out a mind-boggling 1051 operations
per
> > second. Compare this with today's standard laptop, which has a clock
speed of
> > about 500 megahertz and carries out up to 1000 parallel operations each
> > cycle--a total of about 1012 operations per second. The ultimate laptop
would
> > be 1039 times faster.
>
> Umm...eh? The numbers don't come out at all.
>
> 500 megahertz = 500,000,000 cycles per second
> 500 megahertz * 1000 ops per cycle = 500,000,000,000 ops per second
> 1051 O.P.S. / 500,000,000,000 O.P.S = a number much less than 1039
>
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