Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!hplisa!hpislx!bayes
From: bayes@hpislx.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Perceptions of speed (was Re: MIP rating for the Mac II)
Message-ID: <2600001@hpislx.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 15:54:14 GMT
References: <2785@mtuno.ATT.COM>
Organization: Measurement Systems Operation - Loveland, CO
Lines: 18

> I would reply via Email, but this is a VERY bad comparison. The idea
> of the mythical "MIP" is an idead propagated by computer sales(wo)men.
> A MIP is ONLY useful when comparing proccessors with the same instruction
> set. For example, in my Mac, I have a 16mhz 68020/68881 which can put

Actually a "MIP" is useless for almost any purpose, meaning, as it does,
"Machine Instruction Per".  The singular term (e.g. 1 MIPS) is "MIPS":
"Machine Instruction Per Second". This is not to say that the plural is
"MIPSs" :-)

[...]

> Mike Schechter
> Institute for Sensory Research
> isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu

Scott Bayes
Hewlett-Packard Company