MWIPS

Noun

Meaning

MWIPS pl (plural only)

Initialism for million Whetstone instructions per second.

Examples

The Whetstone Report has a table showing MWIPS speeds of PCs via early interpreters and compilers up to modern languages. Source: Internet

The first PC compiler was for BASIC (1982) when a 4.8 MHz 8088/87 CPU obtained 0.01 MWIPS. Source: Internet

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