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First post, by Jo22

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Good evening, everyone!

I just recently stumbled upon a great article by Mr. Robert R. Collins.

- Only about twenty years after its original publishing.

I thought it would be interesting for some of the benchmark fans among of you. (^_^)
The article mentions familiar programs such as Winstone 97 and WinBench.

Benchmarks: Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy
"How to make a 166 MHz Pentium perform like a 300 MHz Pentium II and visa versa"
http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Mar98/Benchmarks.html

Have fun!

PS: Hope this was the right spot to post! I thought so, since Marvin is about old hardware and since that
article is also about both old hardware and benchmarks. In case it's the wrong spot, though, feel free to move it to Milliways, etc.

"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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Reply 1 of 1, by firage

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I guess it's good information, but the point is simple and blatantly obvious. That benchmarks with differing test setups (resolution changes, system component upgrades, etc.) aren't comparable. No serious benchmark comparison is getting away with that kind of cheating.

My big-red-switch 486