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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
- Message-ID: <BxMnvM.BB4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Keywords: sun, classic, sparc
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1992Nov11.071304.16768@tetrasoft.com> <1992Nov11.230438.21819@reed.edu> <1992Nov12.020041.23522@socrates.umd.edu> <1992Nov12.125406.102394@lexmark.com> <1992Nov12.173445.22519@socrates.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:57:07 GMT
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- ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman) writes:
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- >songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:
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- >>Are you sure about this one? What kind of SPARC do they have in
- >>there to give twice the performance? I agree with half the price,
- >>but I'm not so sure about the twice the performance part. The
- >>name "classic" appeneded on the end make me think of the onld
- >>Sparc 1's which are quite a bit slower than the turboes.
- >It uses a Tsunami SPARC chip at 50 MHz. CPU performance is virtually
- >equivalent to the SPARCStation 2, so yes, I stand by my above assertion
- >that the SSC will have roughly twice the CPU performance of NSTC for
- >roughly half the price. :-(
-
- Ok, time to get out those numbers... Anyone have those benchmarks
- that were posted last summer that showed that in raw math
- capability, the Sparc 2+ was at most 20% faster than a NeXTStation
- Turbo...
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