Re: mhz vs bps
Kevin Squires (squiresk@wangfed.com)
Wed, 10 Jan 1996 12:04:01 EST
pilgrim@muse.sfusd.k12.ca.us says...
>MHz describes the speed of the computer's microprocessor or CPU
>example, an Intel 486 or a Motorola 68040 processes information in 16 bit
>chunks (I think),......
Actually in the interest of accuracy, the Intel 486 CPU is considered a 32
bit architecture. This means that the CPU executes 32 bit instructions
(chunks).
Hope this helps,
Kevin Squires
squiresk@wangfed.com