On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 07:06:16PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > MIPS's is not really a proper English. :-) > > AFAIK 'MIPS' is not the plural of 'MIP' (but an acronym ending with > 'S'), hence the possessive form would be MIPS's. MIPS Technologies' IP lawyers insist that MIPS is a proper name and not an acronym - this position has certain advantages in trademark law. Historically MIPS stood for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages but technically may only have been true for the original Stanford RISC processor but certainly not for the first commercial MIPS processor, the R2000, which was released in 1985 which at least had some interlocks. > It doesnt matter much i guess ;-) Not to us because we're not trademark lawyers ;-) Ralf
