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From: daly@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Any Valid PC Benchmark Software Available?
Message-ID: <11597.2756ea6e@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 23:25:34 GMT
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Hi everyone.

I'm looking for a (set of) benchmark program(s) that I could use to get specs
on MS-DOS PC's (8088's-80486's).  I would like them to be fair and thorough.
(i.e. something better that NORTON SI).  Binaries are fine, but C source would
be even better.  Even better would be C source that I would be able to compile
and run also on VMS and UNIX systems.  The program does not have to produce
any well known benchmark, such as MIPS or MFLOPS, etc (although it is fine if
it does).  I just need a basis for comparison between machines.  Does anyone 
know of an ftp site or something similar where I could get something like that?
Or is this just a pipe dream for me? ;-)

Thanks in advance,
Bryon Daly,  ECE grad student at-large
daly@ecs.umass.edu
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