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• MIPS: /mips/ [abbreviation] n. 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
• At that time [the 1960s], Bell Laboratories scientists projected that computer speeds as high as 30 million floating-point calculations per second (megaflops) would be needed for the Army's ballistic missile defense system.
  Many computer experts -- including a National Academy of Sciences panel -- said achieving such speeds, even using multiple processors, was impossible....
• MIPS /mips/ n. [abbreviation] 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
• The speed of time is one second per second.
• To say that UNIX is doomed is pretty rabid, OS/2 will certainly play a role, but you don't build a hundred million instructions per second multiprocessor micro and then try to run it on OS/2.
  I mean, get serious. -- William Zachmann, International Data Corp...
• The computer is the only thing that can make 1,000,000 errors per second.
• KIPS /kips/ n. [abbreviation, by analogy with MIPS using K] Thousands (not 1024s) of Instructions Per Second.
  Usage: rare....
• Where is Ed and the $20 million?