5 Feb
2015
5 Feb
'15
7:26 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Dave G4UGM <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
This was not a possible answer I was familiar with but I like it.
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Doug Ingraham
PDP-8 SN 1175
A benchmark for commercial-type workload in the
1960s was called the
"Gibson Mix"
(presumably after a Mr or Dr Gibson). It predates the Whetstone.
I can't remember whether CCTA ran it on our ICL1905E or the Honeywell L66
Ah the joys of CCTA tests. I worked on two of those, one for a L66 to
DPS300 upgrade at NERC Bidston, and one for an IBM4381 install at Nerc
Wallingford...
that replaced it.
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Just looked it up on wiki ? my memory is a bit faulty - it was a
benchmark for
scientific workloads and dates from the late
50s.
But, yes, it was devised by a Jack Clark Gibson of IBM.