Water MIPS

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Parts of this article are based on the Jargon File, v. 4.4.7,
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water MIPS
Usage: n.


water MIPS: n.

(see MIPS, sense 2) Large, water-cooled machines of either today's ECL-supercomputer flavor or yesterday's traditional mainframe type.

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A really unusual kind of water MIPS.

(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 74-12-25. The previous cartoon was 73-10-31.)

Sources

Source: water MIPS, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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