From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Mon Nov 03 1997 - 14:00:13 EST
At 09:11 AM 11/3/97 -0800, Mitchell Yee wrote:
> A couple of offers:
>
> 1. I use a statistical analysis and reporting package called SAS.
Actually, that's *the* stats package--I know of it, but I've never used it.
> Randall, if you're interested and willing, I'll be happy to ship you
> a hard drive with W95B and SAS loaded. You can then run a few
> analysis programs on a small database, then a large database, then
> ship the disk back to me - I'll cover the shipping costs. Don't worry
> about the disk - it's a spare...
If you include the benchmarks you want me to run *on* the disk too, that
would be useful.
You'll also need to send along a page of "instructions" concerning what
you want me to do as far as running the datasets through SAS. I am
completely unfamiliar with its use.
And I presume you'll just run it on your machine first, then send it to me
after I get the upgrade done on my 701?
Mitchell, would you be kind enough to pull together the *definitive* set
of benchmarks that I should be running? There have been a whole host of
suggestions, and right now the only thing I would definitely say I'll plan
on doing is Winbench (stripped down version at 4 MB) & Wintune--perhaps
Winstone, but I don't like the idea of going through that big CD-ROM with
its possible overhead (I would also have to *get* the CD-ROM from someone,
as well as the one for Winbench if the full version is desired).
I just want to know that everyone can agree on which test(s) will provide
them the picture they need to make a judgement about the upgrade's
performance.
I also don't want to have a veritable *crapload* of different benchmarks
clogging up the works--lets keep it to 2 or 3, please (plus whatever ones
the OS/2 folks want--and perhaps your SAS statistics test--that's actually
a good indicator since statistical functions can be a good indicator of
processor speed).
I also want to avoid wasting time on anything that is sub-system
specific--lets just see (1) how fast CPU-intensive chores are compared to
the "norm" and (2) how much more speed you can expect from everyday chores
(a big document in Word, a big spreadsheet in Excel, etc.). There's no
sense in trying to see how fast the Hard Drive is, etc.--Just the CPU and
how the whole system performs with the new CPU.
> 2. I'll be happy to collect and tabulate and produce a Web/text page
> with any benchmarks reports that are sent to me, perhaps in
> collaboration with ???
In collaboration with Emanuel Brown would be great. I'll E-mail all
results to both of you for putting together, etc.
> Here's a suggested list of data points to collect when reporting
> benchmarks. Since this is just a start, suggestions and changes are
> welcome:
>
> 1. Machine model and type: 2640-4UG
> 2. CPU: 486DX75
> 3. Hard drive size: 2.1 GB
Just have the stock 720 HD in the 701.
> 4. RAM size: 24 MB
> 5. BIOS version: something like BTU03
>
> 6. OS (version): Win95B (OSR2)
It'll have to be "normal" Win 95.
> 7. Disk system: FAT32
It'll have to be FAT16.
> 8. Video settings: 256 colors
> 9. Virtual disk settings: 64 MB (fixed)
May not have this much space to work with, but I'll see what I can do.
> 10. Special machine configuration: -none-
>
>
> 11. Benchmark test: Wintune
> 11a. Report: xxxxxx
>
> 12. Benchmark test: Winbench
> 12a. Report: xxxxxx
I get the idea...
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Randal J. Whittle whittle_at_usc.edu (213) 740-7775
Director, Electronic Commerce Program
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
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