From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ankit Jain Subject: clock cycles Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:15:52 +0100 (BST) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20041012091552.11876.qmail@web52904.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: newbie well this is a very basic question but somewhat myu concept is not clear i am looking at system like before they were very slow but in last few years in systems clock cycle has increased at a rapid rate i.e system used t ocome with speed of 350MHz then it raised 700 MHz and slowly 1 GHz now it is all in GHz what actually this speed does ? what happens by making this clock fast. does it say how many instruction it can have in a clock cycle or something thanks ankit jain ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs