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Subject: Re: SSDF Corruption

Author: Ratko V Tomic

Date: 16:05:41 09/27/99

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 > Who said that the top of the SSDF list must be the strongest program?

Well, you think when, say, CB makes promotional materials, they insert
SSDF qualifiers or give the Mhz speed and RAM the SSDF used for their
top 4 and the others which competed? Or would they just say they top
the list?

If CB marketing could have had their experts decide how to run this SSDF
cycle, how differently could they have arranged the testing from the
actual arrangement? Would they give all top competitors from all
companies/authors equal average hardware (some games on K2-450 some on
slower, in equal proportion), or would they decide on a more "logical"
scheme, where CB does get the fastest hardware (assuring to CB the top 4
spots before the first power switch was turned on), but to ba "fair" a
note is added on the chart disclosing the hardware figures, CPU, Mhz
and RAM?

Actually, we know from your web site that the CB couldn't have thought
up of any better arrangement themselves, had they been in charge of it,
i.e. haven't they proposed to give you the better hardware but only Fritz
was to use it?



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