In the
fantasy novels of
Rick Cook, an
acronym for "Magical Operations Per Second." Used as a
benchmark figure for the
WIZ-DOS spell compiler. Similar in concept to
MIPS.
Early versions of the spell compiler were benchmarked at about 300 MOPS; later versions, incorporating the additional security written into WIZ-DOS, clocked in at around 200 MOPS for spells performing heavy mathematical calculations. (To wizards in the older tradition, two hundred spells a second is still pretty impressive.)
Sources: Rick Cook, Wizard's Bane, The Wizardry Cursed