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lots of MIPS but no I/O

Used to describe a person who is technically brilliant but can't seem to communicate with human beings effectively. Technically it describes a machine that has lots of processing power but is bottlenecked on input-output (in 1991, the IBM Rios, a.k.a. RS/6000, is a notorious recent example).

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LOTOS ♦ lots of MIPS but no I/O ♦ Lotus 1-2-3 ♦ Lotus Development Corporation

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