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- From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2)
- Subject: Re: Is PCMag going to make a OS/2Bench?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.033816.4224@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <If3zt8200UhW82xdcn@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:38:16 GMT
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- In article <If3zt8200UhW82xdcn@andrew.cmu.edu> mp52+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Edward Patton) writes:
- >Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.apps: 21-Nov-92 Re: Is PCMag going to
- >make .. by Timothy F. Sipples@ellis
- >> >Anyone know if PC Mag has any plans to develop an OS/2 2.0 specific graphics
- >> >testing program?
- >> >OS2Bench? We could all share OS2Marks! :)
- >>
- >> I expect so. They had one for OS/2 1.x (which may still be available
- >> via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu). Considering they just
-
- pmbench.zip is in /pub/os2/all/graphics.
-
- >> decided to name OS/2 2.0 "Product of the Year" (or so I'm told), one
- >> would think they'd start getting some utilities, benchmarks, and other
- >> assorted tools out the door.
-
- PC Mag says that they will not benchmark OS/2 or NT until they get
- a large amount of native software. Expect a benchmark by Fall 1993.
- They say this in PC Mag V11N21, page 398.
-
- I don't think they will give lots of OS/2 2.0 coverage, as Norm Peterson...
- er um... that Jim Seymour guy says that since most of the PC Mag guys like
- Windows, they will give lots of coverage to Windows. I think that PC Mag
- should let most of their writers go, and then hire OS/2 fans, such as The
- Great TFS to write the Solutions section, Kai-Uwe Rommel to write the
- Programming section, and (the unemployed :) Bert Moshier to write the
- Columns section. :-)
-
- >I found a benchmark from PCMAG on Wuarchive. It was a set of a Window's
- >graphic test and one for PM (os2 version unknown).
-
- The version is for OS/2 1.x . Their next version should arrive, oh...
- ONE YEAR from now. :(
-
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