In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/10/2006
   at 01:11 AM, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/?title=Million_instructions_per_second

>"Analyst firm Isham Research has lately coined the term kMIPS
>(kilo-million instructions per second) to measure the processor
>speeds in IBM's largest servers."

What's wrong with GIPS, other than the inherent meaninglessness of
quoting IPS?
 
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