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What does MIPS mean?
Index Key: COM017
Author: rob t stuebner
Subject: MIPS.
What does MIPS mean?
Response #: 1 of 1
Author: hawley
MIPS means Million Instructions Per Second, it is one measure of a comput-
er's performance; others are: MFLOPS = million floating point operations per
second, and similar acronyms using G for Giga (1 billion) as the first word.
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