Re: Amiga <--> PC diplomacy

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From: Tom Guptill
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:54

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In <1992Jul24.160432.8653@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY) writes:

>>
>>BTW, wasn't MIPS acronym for Meaningless Instructions Per Second? Wonder what
>>MFLOPS meant though... C'mon guys, what good does this comparing of meaningless
>>numbers do to anyone?
>>
>FLOPS stands for Floating point operations per secound.

[Obvious but irresistible reply:]

So MFLOPS would be Meaningless Floating Point Operations Per Second, right?



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