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From: king@motcid.UUCP (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: '040 on the Amiga!
Message-ID: <3528@grape3.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 90 04:45:45 GMT
References: <1990Jun9.055235.6753@lavaca.uh.edu> <5787@hub.ucsb.edu> <47514@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <47514@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman (Amiga Man)) writes:
>I don't know why, but I somehow remember 20-25 MIPS (whatever the hell a MIP
>is!)

"MIPS" stands for "Million Instructions Per Second" and is a rough 
approximation of processor power.  I consider it about as useful as I
consider source lines of code (SLOC) useful to measure programmer
productivity.  That is, somewhat useful but potentially very misleading.

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