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- Overview
-
- Introduction
-
- WinBench(tm) Version 3.1, November 3, 1992
- (C)Copyright 1992 Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.
- All rights reserved.
-
- WinBench(tm) is the PC Magazine Windows Benchmark suite. It provides
- comprehensive graphics benchmark tests using the Windows Graphical Device
- Interface (GDI) and selected high-level user interface functions. Version 3.1
- is the fourth major release of WinBench. Version 3.1 adds tests of hard disk
- subsystems.
-
- Carefully read the Ziff-Davis Licensing Agreement in its entirety before using
- this software.
-
- WinBench(tm), Graphics WINMARK(tm), Disk WINMARK(tm), and WINMARK(tm) are
- trademarks of the Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.
-
- The Compaq 386/25m used as a reference PC for the WINMARKs was configured
- with the Compaq QVision EISA graphic board. The reference PC was tested with
- the Compaq QVISION.DRV driver at 800x600x256 colors under Windows 3.1.
-
- Ziff-Davis Licensing Agreement
-
- Read this agreement carefully before using the software. By using this software
- you agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. If you do not agree to
- the terms of this agreement, promptly return the software and the accompanying
- items (including documentation and container) to PC Magazine Labs, 1 Park
- Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
-
- The software encoded on the diskettes or available through an online access
- service and related documentation represent one copy of WinBench(tm), an automated
- test tool used in the evaluation and measurement of Windows performance
- ("WinBench(tm)"), a proprietary product of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, a
- division of Ziff Communications Company ("Ziff-Davis"), which is protected by
- the United States Copyright Act and international copyright treaty
- provisions. Ziff-Davis retains ownership of the copyright to the materials.
- The software encoded on the enclosed diskettes or available through an online access
- service and the related documentation are licensed (not sold) to you for use
- solely under the terms and conditions contained herein.
-
- GRANT OF LICENSE
-
- Ziff-Davis grants you the non-transferrable right to use WinBench(tm) on a
- single dedicated computer or a networked file server with multiple PCs solely
- for internal use and evaluation purposes. You may not rent, lease, sell,
- sublicense, assign, or otherwise transfer WinBench(tm) or the accompanying
- documentation. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify,
- or translate WinBench(tm), and all its supporting files or use WinBench(tm)
- for any commercial purposes. You may either (a) make one copy of WinBench(tm)
- solely for backup or archival purposes, or (b) transfer a copy of WinBench(tm)
- across a network to PCs attached to that network. This license and your right
- to use WinBench(tm) automatically terminate if you fail to comply with any
- provision of this license. Upon termination, you agree to destroy all copies
- of WinBench(tm).
-
- CONFIDENTIALITY
-
- Results of use or testing of WinBench(tm) are confidential and proprietary to
- Ziff-Davis. You agree not to provide the results of use or testing of
- WinBench(tm) to any other party without Ziff-Davis' written permission.
- Unauthorized use of WinBench(tm) may cause irreparable harm to Ziff-Davis.
- You agree to promptly report any unauthorized use to Ziff-Davis.
-
- U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS
-
- WinBench(tm) is provided with RESTRICTED RIGHTS. Use, duplication, or
- disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in
- subparagraph (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer
- Software Clause at DFARS 48 CFR 252.277-7013 for DoD contracts and 52.227-19
- (a) through (d) for civilian agency contracts. Contractor/ manufacturer of
- WinBench(tm) is Ziff-Davis, 320B Lakeside Drive, Foster City, California 94404.
-
- LIMITED WARRANTY
-
- WinBench(tm) IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
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-
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- OF THE LICENSE FEE PAID FOR WinBench(tm).
-
- GENERAL
- Some states do not allow exclusion or limitation of implied warranties or
- limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages; so the above
- limitations or exclusions may not apply to you.
-
- Ziff-Davis retains all rights not expressly granted. Nothing in this license
- constitutes a waiver of the rights of Ziff-Davis under the U.S. Copyright Act
- or any other Federal or state law. You are responsible for installation,
- management, and operation of WinBench. This Agreement and the limited warranty
- and limited liability contained herein shall be governed by the laws of the
- State of New York.
-
- What You Need to Run WinBench
-
- To run WinBench, you need to have the following hardware and software.
-
- WinBench requires:
-
- A PC that runs Windows 3.0 or 3.1
-
- About 250,000 bytes available on your hard disk for the WinBench
- software itself.
-
- About 9 million bytes of available space on your hard disk for a
- temporary file to run the WinBench disk tests, and to save the results
- of any WinBench tests that you run. If your hard disk does not have
- enough space for the work file, WinBench will not run the hard disk
- tests.
-
- MS-DOS Release 3.1 or later (Release 5.0 recommended)
-
- Microsoft Windows 3.0 or later (Release 3.1 or later recommended)
-
- Installing WinBench
-
- WinBench is distributed as as single self-extracting executable file,
- WINB31.EXE, on a single diskette. WINBENCH.EXE is the benchmark program
- itself. WINBENCH.HLP is the on-line help for WinBench. README.TXT is this
- file, an ASCII text file that describes how to install WinBench.
-
- You will probably want to create a directory that contains the WinBench files,
- and that will contain all of the report files generated by WinBench. For
- example, you could use the following DOS commands to create the WinBench
- directory on your C: drive, and to change to that directory:
-
- MD C:\WinBench
- CD C:\WinBench
-
- Then, execute the self-extracting WINB31 program to install all of the files
- from the WinBench diskette. If the WinBench diskette is in the A: drive of your
- PC, and you created the WinBench directory as shown above, do the following
- command:
-
- A:WINB31
-
- How to Use WinBench
-
- You launch WinBench just like any other Windows application:
-
- 1. After installing WinBench as shown above, you may execute the DOS
- command:
-
- WIN WINBENCH
-
- 2. You may open up the file manager, go to the WinBench directory on your C:
- drive, and double-click on WINBENCH.EXE.
-
- For other instructions, see the on-line help for WinBench.
-