PC Ratings, what do they mean?

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From: Ben John Fornshell
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:45

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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

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From: bfornshe@s850.mwc.edu (Ben John Fornshell)
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Subject: PC Ratings, what do they mean?
Date: 11 Dec 1992 19:45:50 -0500
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