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From: elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SPEC Bench-a-Thon
Keywords: SPEC performance benchmarks systems
Message-ID: <2395@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 04:01:21 GMT
References: <22031@abbott.mips.COM> <22033@abbott.mips.COM>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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>From: James A. Woods <jaw@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
>Subject: Re: SPEC Bench-a-Thon
>
>as a benchmark, what's wrong with unix 'compress',
>other than it messes up mipsco internal benchmark numbers?
>
 We used compress as one of many tests between a MIPS system and several
 others.  It didn't "mess up" the MIPS in any way.  

  greg pavlov (under borrowed account), fstrf, amherst, ny