From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:08:40 -0500, Phil Payne
 wrote:

> http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/?title=Million_instructions_per_second
>
> "Analyst firm Isham Research has lately coined the term kMIPS
> (kilo-million
> instructions per second) to measure the processor speeds in IBM's largest
> servers."

If only you were American!  You could have coined "BIPS".

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Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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