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De - Pt| English Dictionary: MIPS | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for MIPS | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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MIPS /mips/ n. [abbreviation] 1. A measure of computing speed; formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!); often rendered by hackers as `Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed' or in other unflattering ways, such as `Meaningless Information Provided by Salesmen'. This joke expresses an attitude nearly universal among hackers about the value of most {benchmark} claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and {marketroid}s (see also {BogoMIPS}). The singular is sometimes `1 MIP' even though this is clearly etymologically wrong. See also {KIPS} and {GIPS}. 2. Computers, especially large computers, considered abstractly as sources of {computron}s. "This is just a workstation; the heavy MIPS are hidden in the basement." 3. The corporate name of a particular RISC-chip company; among other things, they designed the processor chips used in {DEC}'s 3100 workstation series. 4. Acronym for `Meaningless Information per Second' (a joke, prob. from sense 1). | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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MIPS 1. The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor executes instructions. Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. This expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most {benchmark} claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and {marketroid}s. The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes heard. See also {KIPS} and {GIPS}. 2. {VAX MIPS}. 3. Stages}. 4. [{Jargon File}] (1996-03-01) | |
