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• baud /bawd/ n. [simplified from its technical meaning] n.
  Bits per second. Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second....
• The speed of time is one second per second.
• KIPS: /kips/ [abbreviation, by analogy with {MIPS} using {K}] n.
  Thousands (*not* 1024s) of Instructions Per Second....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• peedometer: n. A pattern of lights displayed on a linear set of LEDs (today) or nixie tubes (yesterday, on ancient mainframes).
  The pattern is shifted left every N times the operating system goes through its {main loop}....
• MIPS: /mips/ [abbreviation] n. 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
• GIPS: /gips/ or /jips/ [analogy with {MIPS}] n. Giga-Instructions per Second (also possibly `Gillions of Instructions per Second'
  ee {gillion}). In 1991, this is used of only a handful of highly parallel machines, but this is expected to change....
• bandwidth: n. 1. Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle.
  Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....