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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: '040 on the Amiga!
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Date: 15 Jun 90 14:23:00 GMT
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In article <3528@grape3.UUCP> king@motcid.UUCP (Steven King) writes:
>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.

Very rough.  I think of it as "Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed",
personally.

>  I consider it about as useful as I
>consider source lines of code (SLOC) useful to measure programmer
>productivity.

I use COMDPH (Cans Of Mountain Dew Per Hour) figures for myself...
Or MSNRN (Minutes Spent Not Reading News)...
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