In message <Pine.SGI.3.91.970103184232.6145N-100000@physig4.ph.kcl.ac.uk>
          Mark Brinicombe <amb@physig.ph.kcl.ac.uk> wrote:

> > 1) An up-to-date list of available sets together with 1-line description
> > and uncompressed size. Does anyone fancy doing this, please ? Not having
> > my own installation yet I cannot work out the uncompressed size without a
> > lot of hassle. 
> 
> Erm this needs doing. My only suggestion would be to look at all the .set 
> files in the 1.2-release and 1.2-contrib directories.

I'm currently doing this (it's half-finished).

> What would be useful would be to have a source tar file of a load of
> benchmarks and a script to run everything. The byte benchmarks look quite 
> good so perhaps these coupled with dhrystones, whetstones and mflops 
> would do.

There is a benchmark suite called SSBA. I tried to use it some months ago with
little luck.
The German iX magazine uses this, have a look at ftp.ix.de.

> IDE cards
> ???	ICS IDE		- alpha, merge into the source tree soon (mark)
> ???	Yellowstone	- No card, No info, NO WORK

After all what I've heard about Yellowstone: Forget them.

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