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From: jdp@hcx.uucp (Dalton Porter LTD.)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: v01i040: dpbu, Dalton Porter benchmark utility
Date: 11 Dec 88 00:20:51 GMT
Summary: dpbu.arc, Dalton Porter benchmark utility
Approved: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
Posting-number: Volume 01 Issue 040
Originally-from: jdp@hcx.uucp (Dalton Porter LTD.)
Submitted-by: jdp@hcx.uucp (Dalton Porter LTD.)
Archive-name: dpbu
[ This is the Dalton Porter Benchmark Utility, version 1.3, to test
speed of MS-DOS systems. Examination of code reveals the error message
"This video mode is not supported" suggesting that the utility may be
doing direct writes to screen hardware. It works fine on my system
with VGA hardware.
The speed of the CPU is tested. It's not clear which CPU instructions
are being tested, and whether there is any attempt to simulate a
typical instruction queue in case of those CPUs that do pipelining.
The final screen gives you the speed as compared to an AT&T 6300 and
and a 20 MHz 80386-based system.
To avoid confusion with typical "du" (disk usage) utilities, I renamed
the archive, originally du.arc, to dpbu.arc.
-- R.D. ]