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  From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : John Hart <john1961@bigpond.com>
  Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:52:08 +0930 (CST)

Re: Bogomips

Hi,

> What is a Bogomip a measurement for? I have an Athlon 550 which runs at
> 552.14 Bogomips, what does this tell me about the processor or speed ?

The Gurus amoung us can provide much more information on MIPS, but it is
a measure of "milions of instructions per second", but better known as
"meaningless indicator of processor speed". Its a way of comparing how
fast one processor is compared to another, but not realy one computer to
another as many other factors affect a computer's speed.

cya

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