From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: allegro gone missing?
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On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Davin McCall wrote:

> Actually, I would say that "200 times" is contained quite nicely by
> "hundreds or thousands" (which is addmittedly a rather large range of
> numbers).

Actually, I would say that most people understand "hundreds or
thousands" as being more than 500.  200 is more accurately described
as ``a few hundreds'' or ``a couple of hundreds''.

Note that 200 is the absolute maximum in the case in point; the usual
interrupt rate is 18.2.  It hardly makes sense to talk about
``thousands''.