12 Nov
2006
12 Nov
'06
5:36 p.m.
On 12 Nov 2006 at 17:57, Jim Leonard wrote:
I would suggest you ditch Norton SI and instead use
MIPS.COM which is
much more granular and has defaults for exactly your test case machines.
If we want historical accuracy, I'll dig out my Landmark SPEED
program. This was what was trotted out by every PC vendor at shows
and advertised widely in print. Ignore the observations that the
Landmark indices were insane, they were what the customers back in
1985 would have seen--and perceived the speed improvement to be--and
one need only test their 286--the baseline measurement of 4.77MHz PC
was built in (Landmark = 1.0).
Cheers,
Chuck