Byte sizes (was Re: 2.8M 3.5' floppy

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> Just like stating raw clock speedtoday for marketing. 
>I can buy a N GHZ machine but can anybody  tell me 
> the real speed of instruction abc on data xyz?

Sure, if you know all of the environmental issues (condition of pipeline, status of cache, etc).

I have worked on a significant number of Pentium (and other pipelined 
multi-level cached) based systems for engineering projects, and 
*sometimes* we do have to actually still calculate this stuff out to
prove that a design will work under various system and data conditions.