Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!decwrl!spar!hunt From: hunt@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Neil Hunt) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Simple query (prefixing) Message-ID: <443@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> Date: 12 Dec 87 00:48:46 GMT References: <3633@ames.arpa> Reply-To: hunt@spar.UUCP (Neil Hunt) Organization: SPAR - Schlumberger Palo Alto Research Lines: 30 In article <3633@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >We have kilo, mega, giga, tera, and I note some inconsistency >with giga. What shall we use after Tera? Perhaps we need some terms with more mnemonic significance and less sharply defined mathematical significance. Here are a few suggestions: Biga (pronounced `bee-ja, as in `jee-ga, for the soft-G fanatics) Mora Larga Betta Higha Fasta Hotta as in: ``My machine has 1.4e5 betta more neuristors than yours, and it will do 3 Moralips (logical inferences per second). Of course if you insist on using it for floating point, it will only do about 7 Cray Bigaflops, or 52 XMP Bettaflops.'' ``But my processor is built from the new Highachip technology, with liquidified room temperature superconductors to avoid dissipating the 4 Hotta joules which your system contributes to the melting of the polar icecap. (-: :-) Neil/.