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- HighTest Contest
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- Almost everyone at one time or another wants to know what the
- fastest personal computer (in a particular category or class) is.
- Even small business persons, school teachers, students and
- professionals are looking for more PC performance. The trend will
- probably continue forever as user interface technology becomes more
- and more sophisticated and applications become smarter and smarter.
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- T H E C O N T E S T
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- We want to know who makes the FASTEST IBM-compatible systems, as
- measured by HighTest Lite MIPS*16 and MIPS*32 scores. Each month, the
- names of the five people who refer us to the five fastest PC's in each
- category -- that can be verified by Intelligent Devices Corporation --
- will be posted on the PC's Best (tm) BBS (begining Q3FY92) along with
- MIPS*16 and MIPS*32 test result scores.
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- Real MIPS
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- We said "that can be verified"! No verification, no T-Shirt.
- All systems must be running the latest version of MS-DOS (5.0 now) or
- PC-DOS (in the case of IBM systems). Tests must be run with NO
- autoexec.bat and config.sys files installed at bootup (so everyone is
- comparing apples to apples) except for systems that must have special
- video or disk device drivers installed in config.sys. Only verifiable
- MIPS*16 and MIPS*32 scores will be accepted.
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- Contest Categories
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- The categories for testing PC include the following:
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- 1. "Stock" Competition
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- a. The 5 fastest 8088 PC's.
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- b. The 5 fastest 80286 PC's.
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- c. The 5 fastest 80386 PC's.
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- d. The 5 fastest 80486 PC's.
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- e. The fastest PC of any type at any price.
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- f. The fastest PC of any type at the lowest price
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- 2. "Nitro" Competition
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- These are PC that that are faster than "stock" PC's because
- they have been accelerated by using special hardware modi-
- fications such as fast crystals, CPU refrigeration devices,
- faster cache memory, etc. Such systems must survive burn-in
- testing of 48 hours at normal room temperatures of up to 80
- degrees Fahrenheit (what good would a Nitro-PC be if it only
- ran 10 milliseconds?).
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- Verification
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- Verification will be done by IDC staff or designated
- representatives, either on IDC premises or at the site of the system
- being verified. Under no circumstances will IDC accept unverified
- test reports.
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- Trademarks: HighTest Lite, HighTest, HighTest Plus, MIPS*16, MIPS*32,
- and PC's Best are trademarks of Intelligent Devices Corporation
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- MIPS Report Form
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- Report MIP*16 and/or MIPS*32 results to:
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- Intelligent Devices Corporation
- 112 Harvard Ave., Suite 295
- Claremont, CA 91711, USA
- (714) 920-9551
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- Be sure and include the following information (you may want to
- use a word processor to save this on a diskette):
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- Please PRINT!
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- CONTACT INFORMATION:
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- You name: ________________________________________________________
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- Company: ________________________________________________________
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- Address: ________________________________________________________
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- ________________________________________________________
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- City: _________________________________________
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- Postal/Zip: ______________________ State/Prov. _____________________
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- Country: ________________________________________________________
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- Telephone: _________________________________________
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- SYSTEM INFORMATION:
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- Date Tested: _________________________________________
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- Manufacturer: ________________________________________________________
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- Address: ________________________________________________________
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- ________________________________________________________
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- City: _________________________________________
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- Postal/Zip: ___________________ State/Prov. ________________________
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- Country: ________________________________________________________
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- Telephone: _________________________________________
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- Model: ________________________________________________________
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- Serial #: _________________________________________
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- CPU: ________________ CPU Speed (Mhz): _____________________
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- CPU Manuf.: ________________________________________________________
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- MIPS*16 score: __________________ MIPS*32 score: ____________________
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- Where Tested: ________________________________________________________
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- By Whom?: ________________________________________________________
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- Phone #: _________________________________________________________
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- Was this system "pushed"; did it have hardware modifications? Yes [ ]
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- If "Yes", then please describe in detail what modification were
- made to the system (use separate sheets of paper if necessary):
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- __________________________________________________________________
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- _________________________________________________________________
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- __________________________________________________________________
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- __________________________________________________________________
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- Comments: _________________________________________________________
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- __________________________________________________________________
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- _________________________________________________________________
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