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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Acronyms.  Is is `1 MIP' or `1 MIPS'?
Message-ID: <327@demott.COM>
Date: 25 Jun 90 23:18:38 GMT
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Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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In article <zlp4o3@unify.uucp> dgh@unify.uucp (David Harrington) writes:
>In article <16948@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>>In article <305@spam.ua.oz> wvenable@spam.ua.oz (Bill Venables) writes:
>>>I always thought that `MIPS' was an acronym for `Mega-Instructions Per
>                                                   ^^^^
>Wrong.  It's MILLION, not MEGA
>

    Actually, it's got to be MIPS, because it stands for

    Meaningless Information Provided by Salesmen

(no plurals at all)


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