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Weblog:   The Pet Store.... Again
Subject:   When were you born Moron? - After Watergate I suppose
Date:   2002-11-06 10:56:52
From:   anonymous2
Ted Neward writes >Dion writes that "M$ could even tweak their .NET core! Do you think you can download that .NET runtime right now?" Dion, I hate to say this, but that's a spurious argument and a foolish one to rely on. Do you honestly believe that Microsoft wrote a specialized version of the runtime just for this benchmark?


I remember Sun had learned their lesson:
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/~dunc/cdrom/archives/ay1997/teaching/cad/related/sunjavabenchmark.html