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  From: Andrew Hill <list@fornax.net>
  To  : David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:13:42 +0930

Re: Bogomips

David Drury wrote:
> 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.

And thus, as far as I can remember, "BogoMIPS" was picked to indicate
how "bogus" this measurement is.

Cheers,

-- 

Andrew Hill

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