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Today • August 30
MIPS
Stands for "Million Instructions Per Second." MIPS is a unit of measurement that indicates the raw processing speed of a CPU. It quantifies how many millions of instructions a processor can execute in one second. ... Read More
Today's Quiz Question
Which term is used to categorize a 64-bit Intel processor?
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X82
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B
X4.64
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C
X86-64
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D
X2/32
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