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- From: bfornshe@s850.mwc.edu (Ben John Fornshell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: PC Ratings, what do they mean?
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 19:45:50 -0500
- Organization: Mary Washington College, CPSC Dept.
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- Does anyone out there have any information on just what all the
- ratings systems out there (Winmarcs, Specmarcs, and all those) really
- mean. I see (ussually from the title) the general idea, but I here a
- lot of them are unrealistic, for instance I hear the SLC chips are
- overated because the test programs are so small that they get to keep
- everything in their 1K cache. I also here that WinMarks is unrealistic
- because it doesn't represent what real users use Windows for, but in all
- of the rumour floating around I haven't been able to find out what they
- aren't representing.
- If anyone could provide information on them, or where to find such
- information I would be most apreciative.
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- bfornshe@s850.mwc.edu
-