SPEC Newsletter Article Archives
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SPEC News
Fourth Quarter '96
Third Quarter '96
- Not available yet...
Second Quarter '96
First Quarter '96
December '95
September '95
- SPEC Discusses the History & Reasoning Behind SPEC95
- SPEC Describes SPEC95 Products And Benchmarks
- SPEC95 Questions And Answers
- A Look at SPEC95: An Introduction to 099.go
June '95
- What Is New With SFS? SFS Addresses Meta Data Access Time
- How SPEC's Open System Group Selects New Benchmarks
March '95
December '94
- Benefits of SPEC Membership
- SPEC Eliminates Libcurses.a From 072.sc
- Non-baseline Results Eliminated From SPEC SFS Benchmark
Open Forum
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June '95
- Flight Recorders, Timing Chains, and Directions For SPEC System Benchmarks
- Profile Of A SPEC95 Benchmark Candidate