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Definition of Million instructions per second
1. Noun. (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system). "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second"
Category relationships: Computer Science, Computing
Generic synonyms: Unit, Unit Of Measurement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Million Instructions Per Second
Literary usage of Million instructions per second
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Politics of Bandwidth: Network Innovation and Regulation in Broadband by James Wilsdon, Daniel Stedman Jones (2002)
"Today . . . there are perhaps 300 million active computers in the world with
processing power averaging several hundred million instructions per second. ..."
2. Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the 21st Century by William B. Johnstone, DIANE Publishing Company, Arnold E. Packer (1987)
"Today's microprocessors that can process one or two million instructions per
second will have been succeeded by chips that are an order of magnitude more ..."
3. A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology by Roy A. Allan (2001)
"The microprocessor can process a maximum of three instruction per clock cycle
and 300 million instructions per second. Clock speeds were 150, 166, ..."
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