Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!otter!tgg
From: tgg@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: GIPS? --> BIPS!
Message-ID: <780021@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 11:10:17 GMT
References: <818@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Lines: 6

:)
|When we mean 1000 MIPS, this is 1 Billion Instructions Per Second
|
|So I propose: Let's call 1000 MIPS: 1 BIPS

:) of course, in the UK, 1 billion = 1000000 million , i.e. 10**12 ;)