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From: jps@wucs1.wustl.edu (James Sterbenz)
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Subject: Re: CDC 205 et al
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Date: 3 May 89 17:38:10 GMT
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In article <17817@cup.portal.com> bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian bcase Case) writes:

>I am not flaming, but has anyone else noticed that MIP is not the
>singular of MIPS?  I mean, a "million instructions per" is not
>really a unit....

Yep, and I frequently have to explain why I use "1 MIPS" in
print (although I still have the tendency to say "1 MIP" in 
conversation).  Same for FLOPS, although it comes up less frequently
(If it rates at 1MFLOPS, you probably don't care about floating
point :-) 

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