1. Introduction
This text, initially started back in 1993 as BogoMips Information
Sheet, is retrievable in the most up-to-date version from its homepage
at
www.clifton.nl
, and
from the various Linux archives.
Translations are reported to be available in
Chinese
,
French
, German,
Hungarian
,
Indonesian
,
Italian
, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,
Russian
,
Spanish
, and
Slovak
from
appropriate archives.
An explanatory
article
, titled 'the Quintessential Linux Benchmark,' was
published in the Linux Journal, vol 21, January 1996. The BogoMips
is also explained in
The
Jargon File
.
New mini-Howto entries for unlisted CPUs will
be highly appreciated. They can be send per
e-mail to the author Wim van
Dorst