On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, der Mouse wrote:

> >> Vup is equivalent to approx .9 of the mythological MIP (where the
> >> KL10 was 1.0 MIP in 1980).
> 
> > I'm not sure what a MIP is, but assuming your talking about MIPS,
> 
> If you want to try to pick (arguably invalid) nits about language, you
> would come across a whole lot better if you didn't make blunders like
> confusing "your" and "you're".
> 
> As for what "MIP" is, it's the singular of "MIPS".

Double blunder... MIPS isn't a plural word, it's short for "million
instructions per second", which makes "MIP" just silly. "million
instructions per" what?

Backforming just don't work that way...

	Johnny

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