Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!atha!auvax.AthabascaU.CA!kevinc From: kevinc@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Kevin Crocker) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Commonly asked questions, homework on the net, etc. Message-ID: <586@auvax.AthabascaU.CA> Date: 20 Mar 90 03:27:07 GMT References: Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 45 In article webber@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes: > >Of course, at a University there is >generally a pool of people addressing the same problems (or having had >addressed them in a previous year) This and the urban argument may explain why I have had particularly poor response to my requests for graphics tests. I am a faculty member (not in computing) at a remote rural University. I don't have a lot of fellow faculty members or computing gurus to ask that would have this kind of thing sitting in their hip pocket because we would normally have very little need for this type of thing. I made many phone calls trying to track down some graphics programs that could really run a hi res monitor and card through their paces based on information that I got from our gurus. I then chased a lot of private mail around to people that have sounded like they would know about this stuff. My last resort was to make a plea to the net for something that I could only vaguely track down. Since I am not in computer science I had some trouble getting specifics out of people who have just assumed that since I am not in comp sci that I wouldn't understand anything. In general, the responses I got were to read the trade journals, which I did but they are particularly unimpressive about where to actaually get the test programs. I was also referred to comp.graphics because of the expertise that existed in this forum. So far I am very disappointed. BTW, the reason I asked for pointers to where I could get some software is that I have a vision problem. I have made a request for new computer equipment and have been told that I have to provide a detailed analysis of the proposed equipment prior to any committment on the purchase. Thus, I would like to try to find something that would help me perform this analysis - i.e. benchmarks and graphics test suites. My appologies if I have used the wrong terminology but it is the best that I can do without more information. After almost two months of searching I am barely closer to the goal. Comp.graphics is getting close to the last available resource for me. Sincerely, Kevin Crocker Assistant Professor, Finance Studies -- Kevin "auric" Crocker Athabasca University UUCP: ...!{alberta,ncc,attvcr}!atha!kevinc Inet: kevinc@cs.AthabascaU.CA