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 from this English version (by Wim van Dorst)
are reported to be available in
Chinese,
French (by Antoine Levavasseur),
Hungarian (by Daczi László),
Indonesian (by Mohammad Damt),
Italian (by Federico Lucifredi),
Russian (by Mikhail Korepanov),
Spanish (by Juan Carlos Durán García),
Slovak (by Filip Hroch)
and several other languages (German, Norwegian, Polish, Japanese, Portugese),
unfortunately without details yet, all from the appropriate archives.
An explanatory
magazine 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 and the
Wikipedia.
New mini-Howto entries for unlisted CPUs will
be highly appreciated. They can be sent by e-mail to the author Wim van
Dorst
1.1. Colofon
This mini-Howto is currently written in Docbook XML 4.4. Early
versions of the mini-Howto, in the '90s, were in plain ASCII text.
Then in the last year of the '90, it was converted to then current
HTML 3.x, upgraded later to HTML 4, and in 2000 further upgraded to
Linuxdoc SGML. Since version v37 in 2004, the full blown Docbook XML
is used, with the Linux Document Project XSL stylesheets, to better
fit in with the other mini-Howtos and Howtos.
There is only one tool to edit the various files, and that is
vi, the renowned Unix text editor. XML to xhtml conversion tools
include xmlto and the xsl-stylesheets of the TLDP. For the Clifton
website these sames tools and stylesheets are used; the different
look and feel comes from the Clifton CSS.
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