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From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: Objective Benchmarks
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Date: 15 Sep 90 19:35:13 GMT
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In article <520@usenix.ORG> david@cis.ohio-state.edu (David L. Summerville) writes:
>Are there objective benchmarks that we can use or purchase to 
>assess "Price/Performance" for Unix machines?  I'm looking for 
>something as vendor-independent as possible.  

That's exactly what the SPEC benchmarks are supposed to be.  


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