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What does MIPS mean?

Index Key:   COM017
Author:      rob t stuebner
Subject:     MIPS.
What does MIPS mean?

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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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