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  2. From: tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Amiga <--> PC diplomacy
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul24.195453.6699@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
  6. Date: 24 Jul 92 19:54:53 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul21.204217.15732@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <711583453snx@global.hacktic.nl> <1992Jul24.160432.8653@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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  13. In <1992Jul24.160432.8653@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY) writes:
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  15. >>
  16. >>BTW, wasn't MIPS acronym for Meaningless Instructions Per Second? Wonder what
  17. >>MFLOPS meant though... C'mon guys, what good does this comparing of meaningless
  18. >>numbers do to anyone?
  19. >>
  20. >FLOPS stands for Floating point operations per secound.
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  22. [Obvious but irresistible reply:]
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  24. So MFLOPS would be Meaningless Floating Point Operations Per Second, right?
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