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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... ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California