What Is a Commonly Used Rating of a Computer's Speed

question 31

Multiple Choice

What is a commonly used rating of a computer's speed that is based on the number of instructions per second executed by the computer's control unit?

• A) MFLOPS
• B) MIPS
• C) CPU
• D) MPP

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