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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: SPARCClassic (and other Sun announcments)
- Message-ID: <15455@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 07:16:10 GMT
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- >With that said, I think Sun's claims that the system is faster/better
- >than a PC are true,
-
- Better? Possibly (although, at some point, if you like Solaris 2.x,
- "the SPARCclassic runs Solaris 2.1 and the PC doesn't" isn't going to be
- usable against the PC...).
-
- Faster? Dunno. Any idea what the SPECint92 and SPECfp92 numbers for a
- 66 MHz DX2 486 box are?
-
- > SPARCclassic SS2
- >
- >SPECint92 26.4 21.8
- >SPECfp92 21.0 22.8
- >MIPS 59.1 28.5
-
- Hmm. One more reason to call it "Meaningless Indicator of Processor
- Speed"? I'm curious what those "MIPS" numbers are, given how much they
- differ when the SPEC numbers don't differ nearly so much - Dhrystone
- MIPS?
-
- >They indicated that the microSPARC actually costs hundreds of dollars less than
- >a comprable 486 cpu and it has various other stuff in it (sbus logic? - memory
- >hazy here).
-
- The TMS390S10 has the memory controller and SBus interface on the chip.
- There's another chip with, I think, parallel, SCSI, and LANCE Ethernet
- interfaces on it, and yet another chip with 2 Z8530's, other J. Random
- 8-bit peripherals, counter-timers, and other goop on it.
-