Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!leah!bingvaxu!bingsune.cc.binghamton.edu!consp22
From: consp22@bingsune.cc.binghamton.edu (Darren Handler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Perceptions of speed (was Re: MIP rating for the Mac II)
Message-ID: <2817@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 90 16:55:48 GMT
References: <2600001@hpislx.HP.COM> <2785@mtuno.ATT.COM>
Sender: usenet@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
Reply-To: consp22@bingsune.cc.binghamton.edu (Darren Handler)
Organization: SUNY Binghamton
Lines: 18


 -> 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" :-)

I think you made a mistake.  It stands for Million Instructions per Second.
If my computer was rated a 6 Machine Instructions per Second it would be 
running as slow as Peanut Butter flowing uphill in February.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  Consp22@Bingsuns.pod.binghamton.edu  |  SUNY-B Computer Consultants -      |
|  Consp22@Bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu   |  Trying to keep the world safe from |
|---------------------------------------|  the SUNY-B Computer users.         |
|  System Consultant - World Computers  |-------------------------------------|
|  Computer Cons. - SUNY Binghamton     |     Darren `Mac Hack' Handler       |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
I don't know if I am going to heaven or hell, I just hope God grades on a curve