At 10:42 11.09.98 -0700, Gavin wrote:
> ...  One possibility would be for one person or a consortium of
>users to write the benchmark and show that it has the potential to produce
>good numbers, then HP could take over the actual running of the benchmark
>along with all of the paperwork and whatnot required to get the benchmark
>certified by the TPC.

Sounds like a nice candidate to excercise the "freeware development
model"... Many people contributing to create a good piece of software.
Having something like that with open source code could even provide
a lot of good educational examples for new HP 3000 developers...

Lars (my $0.00 ;-)