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BogoMIPS /bo'go-mips/ n.

The number of million times a second a processor can do absolutely nothing. The [Linux] OS measures BogoMIPS at startup in order to calibrate some soft timing loops that will be used later on; details at the BogoMIPS mini-HOWTO. The name Linus chose, of course, is an ironic comment on the uselessness of all other [MIPS] figures.

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