Author: Mark Young
Date: 10:12:29 10/29/98
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On October 29, 1998 at 09:34:54, James T. Walker wrote: >On October 28, 1998 at 18:35:56, Mark Young wrote: > >>On October 28, 1998 at 18:21:31, odell hall wrote: >> >>> Hello CCC >>> >>> >>> Does anyway care to explain the decrepancy between the rebel10 bench mark test >>>and the ssdf? On my pentium 120 with 16mb of ram rebel scored a benchmark of >>>2354, this is over 100 pts below the ssdf list which rates rebel on my processor >>>to be around 2470. How accurate is this benchmark test? It appears to me that >>>the test is kind of persimmistic regarding the ratings of programs. Perhaps >>>there is a secret robert hyatt algorithm written within the program!!!!! No >>>offense bob just kidding!! >> >>The rating in itself in not important, I think the rating is designed to give >>you an idea how the program will perform on different computers. On my P II 400 >>I get a rating around 2550 or about 200 rating points over rebel on your P 120. >>I would guess this is about the right rating difference if you played Rebel P120 >>Vs Rebel PII 400. > >Hello Mark, > >It is for these reasons mentioned above that I suggested on Rebel's home page >that the "RATING" for their program be made a "variable" that the owner/operator >can enter himself/herself. That way if you believe the SSDF then you can enter >the SSDF rating into your copy at home at be very happy with what it says. :>) >If you believe someone else's or have your own opinion you can install that ! >Why not make everyone happy with the rating ? As Einstein once said "It's all >relative anyway". :>) I think this is all just too silly. I don't give a rat what rebel 10 says its rating is on a given computer. The only way to get an accurate rating on rebel 10 is to play Rebel 10 against rated players. And since this has not happend, no one knows what the rating is. I guess if it makes the customeres happy seeing a rating on the benchmark test of 3000 it ok by me, but it will not make it true. Why must we distort a simple benchmark test into something it is not, I don't know. I think Ed designed it as nothing more then a speed test, not to give an exact rating for the computer. >Jim Walker
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