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BogoMIPS

Today it means: A crude informal measurement of CPU speed, made by the Linux kernel while booting and used to calibrate an internal busy loop. Full definition →

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From bogus and MIPS (“million instructions per second”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.