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To: Scot who wrote (82946)	12/14/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572003

Re: "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? " So are you suggesting that Compaq would lie by artificially inflating CuMine scores when by so doing they are thereby displacing their own pride and joy product, the Alpha, as the fastest integer processor in the world? I don't think so. Re: "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." Please note that AMD has never disclosed the compiler options used in their phoney CuMine benchmarks, nor has any of the other websites that post unofficial scores. This is in violation of SPEC rules. Their results are non-reproduceable and therefore invalid. EP