I have been watching this newsgroup for the past few days with different
postings trying to explain the non-availability of SPARC based fault tolerant platforms. But, my question is whether is there any whole lot of difference between SPARC (isn't it Scalable Processor ARChitecture) and RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) other than a different acronym. And lately I have
been hearing it (SPARC) is heading for dead end :-(. Can some kind(!) soul look