> Please can we not use clock speed of a measure of worth of CPUs. It > doesn't mean much. Equally well I oculd argue that SPARC boxen are > better because they are quad issue and not double as many PCs or the > fact that they are triple address not double... I haven't done this, this is why I mentioned the parallelism of the cpu in my equations. And most PCs are not dual issue, they are quad issue just like the UltraSPARC family.