Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!sci.kun.nl!atcmpe!jc From: jc@atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: GIPS? --> BIPS! Message-ID: <818@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> Date: 11 Dec 90 09:24:27 GMT References: Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lines: 23 > In article <1758@unix386.Convergent.COM> dtynan@unix386.Convergent.COM (Dermot Tynan) writes: [About GUI's needing lot's of MIPS/GIPS] >> *terrible*. Even with 280 GIPS, I can't see this kind of thing changing. Doesn't the term MIPS stand for Meaningless Index of Processor Spe.. oops I mean Million Instructions Per Second? If so, why are people talking about GIPS when they mean 1000 MIPS? (this would imply Giga Instructions Per Second, implying Mega Instrinstructions per second, but this is bad syntax (I think.) Perhaps a mix from megaflops and gigaflops?) When we mean 1000 MIPS, this is 1 Billion Instructions Per Second So I propose: Let's call 1000 MIPS: 1 BIPS JC BTW: in Dutch, a BIPS is someone's behind in children's language... :-) -- ___ __ ____________________________________________________________________ |/ \ Jan Christiaan van Winkel Tel: +31 80 566880 jc@atcmp.nl | AT Computing P.O. Box 1428 6501 BK Nijmegen The Netherlands __/ \__/ ____________________________________________________________________