[sgt]

The following statement puts things in perspective, doesn't it.

"Speeds of 200 MIPS and more are likely in the coming years."

Now, a modern Mac Pro can do 488250 million instructions per second. Needless to say, we've had progress in these last couple of decades.

[jacquesm]

Forget about the Mac Pro (and isn't it the intel CPU that does those instructions to begin with?), take any modern graphics card.