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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: BENCHMARKS !!!!
Message-ID: <36221@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Nov 90 22:48:42 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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What are the "industry-standard" benchmarks for pc's, and what
do you think about them?  Specifically, the Landmark, Power Meter, MHz,
and Norton SI benchmarks.  Are there others which should be added
to that list?

What makes a PC benchmark different from a benchmark for workstations,
like the SPEC benchmark?  Do PC benchmarks measure I/O?  Do they provide
a single number, or separate numbers like the SPEC benchmark suite?

I suppose all PC benchmarks run in real-address mode, so that eliminates
performance differences due to the processor architecture, which is
something SPEC is designed to reveal.