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To: Win Smith who wrote (87865)	9/5/2002 1:30:01 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

The best evidence for a BAPCo class action suit could be how BAPCo handles AMD's "full membership." Undoubtedly, Intel is trying to get the benchmark suite changed to make hyperthreading look good. Someone pointed out here that HTh will certainly look bad under Sysmark 2002 because the primary determinant of the score the foreground task response time and this will certainly be lower if the CPU is jumping to the background task thousands of times per second during memory stalls, etc. So Intel will try and make background execution more important, and truthfully, without some justficiation for this, such as a survey of office workers who say that encoding video in the background is really, really important (<g>), any such change would be prima face evidence of fraud. Suppose AMD comes into a meeting and produces a corporate survey showing that 90% of Excel users who run spreadsheets that take longer than 5 seconds to recalculate have never used the 'sort' function. How could BAPCo justify keeping this as the primary test function for Excel in Sysmark 2003? A: They couldn't. Petz