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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