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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (82938)12/14/1999 5:15:00 PM
From: Scot  Read Replies (1) of 1572089
 
Re: "and I should believe some cockamamy benchmark they throw up? Who cares about high priced RAMBO*? Didn't I just post some spec scores to you showing Athlon blowing away the Flopper?"

SPEC scores are the industry standard and overseen by a SPEC committee. So you don't believe them even when posted by a pro-AMD vendor. Rinky dink websites run by pimple faced geeks are the authority you respect. Thanks for putting things into perspective.

That significantly spins the issue. Yes, the benchmarks are an industry standard, but the "scores" are submitted by individuals. A committee reviews the submitted scores, but does not warrant their veracity. Anyone can license the software, run tests, and post their results on the SPEC website. If "[r]inky dink" websites license and authorize the software, who are you to say that the results are not valid? I mean, we can always argue that people are not complying with the SPEC system and other requirements, or even just lying...right?

Here is the disclaimer for that data you keep posting:

The results published by SPEC have been reviewed by the SPEC organization prior to publication. However, these are submissions by member companies and the contents of any SPEC reporting page are the submittor's responsibility. SPEC makes no warranties about the accuracy or veracity of this data.

Please note that other results, those not appearing here and from non-member companies, are in circulation; by license agreement, these results must comply with SPEC run and reporting rules but SPEC does not warrant that they do.

-Scot
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