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• GIPS /gips/ or /jips/ n. [analogy with MIPS] Giga-Instructions per Second (also possibly `Gillions of Instructions per Second'
  ee gillion). In 1991, this is used of only a handful of highly parallel machines, but this is expected to change....
• KIPS: /kips/ [abbreviation, by analogy with {MIPS} using {K}] n.
  Thousands (*not* 1024s) of Instructions Per Second....
• MIPS: /mips/ [abbreviation] n. 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
• KIPS /kips/ n. [abbreviation, by analogy with MIPS using K] Thousands (not 1024s) of Instructions Per Second.
  Usage: rare....
• MIPS /mips/ n. [abbreviation] 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
• gillion: /gil'y*n/ or /jil'y*n/ [formed from {giga-} by analogy with mega/million and tera/trillion] n.
  10^9. Same as an American billion or a British `milliard'....
• baud: /bawd/ [simplified from its technical meaning] n.
  Bits per second. Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second....
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• epoch: [UNIX: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n.
  The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values....