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computer powerThe effective performance of a computer. It can be expressed in MIPS (millions of instructions per second), clock speed (10 Mhz, 16 Mhz) and in word or bus size, (16-bit, 32-bit). However, as with automobile horsepower, valves and cylinders, such specifications are only guidelines. Real power is whether it gets your job done quickly. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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SGI is the company that provides the computer power behind the installations cited in the article. Sandhills Publishing (Lincoln, NE), the producer of Smart Computing and related directories, has begun the publication of Computer Power User (CPU) magazine with a December issue. But what we really like about this, and we learned a lot about this in Deep Blue, is the brute force techniques of having a lot of information and a lot of computer power is the most effective way of making systems behave in what we humans would call intelligence," he said. |
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