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To: Paul Engel who wrote (119025)	11/22/2000 11:45:36 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: we received an email from Adrian Silasi, the benchmarking suite's developer, kindly offering us a pre-release download of Sandra 2001. Adrian has asked us to keep the download location secret for the moment, so don't ask us for it Great, a secret benchmark program specially written so that a 1.5GHZ P4 can nose out a 1GHZ PC133 Athlon. But I don't run secret benchmark programs. I run Windows 2000, Windows 2000 server, Linux, Citrix Winframe, Oracle 8.0.6, Oracle 8.1.6, SQL Server 7, Internet Information Server 4, Office 97, Office 2000, Visual C++ and executables compiled with it, Visual Basic and executables compiled with it, Arc Info 8, Arview 3.2, Mapobjects IMS, Borland C++ and executables compiled with it, Adobe Illustrator, WordPerfect, Corel Draw, and, well we use a lot of software. All of these programs run a lot faster on an Athlon than they do on a P4. So for our needs P4 is overpriced and not particularly useful. But I have to admit, for running secret benchmark programs, P4 is perfect. Dan