Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
MIPS
MIPS, million instructions per second
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
MIPS (plural MIPSs)
(computing) Millions of Instructions Per Second
(electronics) Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
Anagrams
• IMSP, IPMs, PIMs, PMSI, SIMP, imps, imps., simp, spim
Source: Wiktionary
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CRITICAL
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