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- From: dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Daniel R. Kegel)
- Subject: Re: Is Sparc out of Gas?
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:56:00 GMT
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- rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
- >Now I seem to remember reading somewhere that Sparc International
- >was working on a 64 bit standard Sparc-Compatible standard.
- >What do other folks know about this. My friend claims that it
- >is not possible to extend the Sparc standard in the ways it would
- >take to really gain a performance advantage over the competition.
-
- I suspect that the 64 bit Sparc chips will be impressively fast.
- Haven't heard any good reason why Sparc is ahead or behind other
- architectures other than bad luck and/or management.
- - Dan K.
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