BogoMIPS: bo'go-mips 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
(http://www.hobby.nl/~clifton). The name Linus chose, of course, is
an ironic comment on the uselessness of all _other_ MIPS figures.
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