In article <399676FC.344E3B22@yahoo.com>, ryan constantine 
<rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> actually, alternative computers such as quantum computers may achieve
> such high speeds in the not-so-distant future once they leave the
> academia stage and can be put to real uses.

Actually, when quantum computers are seriously working, we are probably 
going to have to find a new way of measuring processing power. They 
probably won't have a MHz rating, though there may be some sort of 
sample rate for transferring data. There will probably be a rating for 
number of simultaneous operations, and minimum operation time.
From what I understand of them, they are just too different to use the 
same units we use today, like MHz or even megaflops(or petaflops, for 
that matter).

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