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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Is Sparc out of Gas?
- Message-ID: <15588@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:24:05 GMT
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- > If it is
- > "honest" data, then it shows that SUN's best effort with the SPARC falls
- > far short in performance per processor when compared with DEC's best first-
- > generation ALPHA effort. Because of that, I don't buy SUN's proposition
- > that the SPARC is equal to other RISC processors on the market.
-
- I don't yet see any evidence that SPARC has an *architectural* problem.
- I see evidence that *Sun's* (not "SUN's", please) best effort with SPARC
- has a problem; however, they're not the only people who're designing
- next-generation SPARC processors. (I.e., don't mistake what may have
- been a bad *implementation* choice for a bad *architectural* choice.)
-