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In article <2600001@hpislx.HP.COM> bayes@hpislx.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) writes:
>Actually a "MIP" is useless for almost any purpose, meaning, as it does,
>"Machine Instruction Per".  The singular term (e.g. 1 MIPS) is "MIPS":
>"Machine Instruction Per Second". This is not to say that the plural is
>"MIPSs" :-)
>

Actually, the term MIPS stands for "Million Instructions Per Second".  A 6
MIPS machine would be useless if it executed six instructions per second.
That's where the problems arise.  A 68030 instruction is worth more than
a SPARC instruction because it can do more.  So, just going by MIPS is not
a valid comparison unless you are comparing two computers with the same
CPUs.  The only real way to compare the speeds of machines is to do 
benchmarks.