						Release Notes
						
						OmicronSoft

						BeRometer
						Version 1.2.4
						20 August 1999

About the installer:
EasyInstall is an installation application that installs BeOS applications onto your system.
Double select the installer application and follow the directions. A log file will be created in the destination folder listing the actions of the installer. The installer contains integrated help by pressing the <Shift><F1> keys over the items you wish to obtain help on. Once the application has been installed, a deinstaller is available to remove installed files.

For more information about EasyInstall, you visit its web site at:
http://www.OmicronSoft.com

About the application:
BeRometer is a benchmark application for the BeOS. It gathers metrics on the BeOS graphics, memory  management, floating point computations, disk i/o, and file life cycle. BeRometer graphs your results with other  BeOS configurations that were sent in by users.

BeRometer should only be used as a guage to evaluate the relative performance of the BeOS and the hardware  configuration being compared. No single numerical measurement can describe the performance of a computer. If  performance and hardware configuration is vital to your business needs, testing the application on various 
environments is the best means to obtain a subjective evaluation of performance. Many BeOS applications are  highly threaded, and may increase overall performance. BeRometer performance are all iterative operation and  are sequentially done to obtain an average rate.

Thank you, and enjoy the application.

REVISION HISTORY:

1.2.4		20 Aug 1999
	- Addition of submitted configurations

1.2.3		20 Aug 1999
	- Addition of submitted configurations

1.2.2		15 Feb 1999
	- Addition of submitted configuration

1.2.1		31 Dec 1998
	- Addition of submitted configurations
	- Look-up of zip from PATH environment variable

1.2.0		30 Dec 1998
	- Simplified interface
	- Online help by selecting <Shift><F1> over desired area
	- All existing R3 results
	- R4 updates

1.1.3		13 May 1998
	- Addition of configurations testes

1.1.2		02 March 1998
	- Addition of configurations tested

1.1.1		19 January 1998
	- Ability to ratio results in the comparison window against the active configuration
	- Obtain unknown vendor and device names to be added into next release
	- Removal of threaded disk lifecycle
	- Addition of Whetstone timing test for multi-threaded/multi-processor testing
	- Ability to directly email results upon saving results to a file.
