Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 04:54:47 11/02/98
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On November 02, 1998 at 07:41:50, Jari Huikari wrote: >On November 02, 1998 at 07:16:28, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>On November 02, 1998 at 05:58:17, Jari Huikari wrote: >>>Using the same standard hardware year after year to >>>get certainly comparable results and to see how much progress really >>>happeness in software. > >>Good idea, but who wants to retain old PCs for that kind of testing? And >>probably new programs/operating systems are not running on old PC at all. > >Perhaps this could be limited to those programs using some current operating >system, which they probably won't change soon. I think that we will have >programs running under DOS and Windows for many many years... Perhaps what >is needed is implementing some new autoplayer too... > > Jari using the same hardware year after year is not a good idea, just as long as each each the programs are tested on the same machines then it will be fine Why would you want to have them tested on the same hardware year after year, programs get updated so to should the hardware. It is logical to have programs tested on undated machines each year, just so long as all the programs are tested on equal hardware
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