Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!beta.its.bt.co.uk!tjo From: tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: GIPS? --> BIPS! Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 90 15:14:39 GMT References: <818@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> <780021@otter.hpl.hp.com> Sender: news@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (News with an UZI) Organization: BT Applied Systems, Birmingham, UK Lines: 12 In article <780021@otter.hpl.hp.com> tgg@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner) writes: >| >|So I propose: Let's call 1000 MIPS: 1 BIPS > >:) of course, in the UK, 1 billion = 1000000 million , i.e. 10**12 ;) Not so. We changed the definition some time ago to 1000 million. Tim. -- Tim Oldham, BT Applied Systems. tjo@its.bt.co.uk or ...uunet!ukc!its!tjo Well, you'd have a corporate siege mentality, too.