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- From: ram@shukra.Eng.Sun.COM (Renu Raman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Is Sparc out of Gas?
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 06:33:22 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- References: <3864@key.COM>
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- In article <3864@key.COM> rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
- >
- >How do other folks feel about this? What does the evidence claim?
- >What I've heard is that although Sparc as been cheaper to "scale"
- >to using faster technology, the other companies have just used
- >sheer brute force and financial muscle to gain and advantage over
- >Sun.
- >
- >What are other folks thoughts?
-
- Most of the current crop of RISC architectures are fundamentally similar
- and if one were to apply the same compiler and implementation
- techniques to all of them - its possible to find all of them within
- a few % points of each other in terms of performance, cost etc.
-
- Its just that different companines have made different trade-offs in
- their investment and development of any particular processor at any
- given time and that manifests itself as the cost and performance
- differentiator. As one can notice, no one architecture has been the
- leader in the past 5 years - its been switching at a farily
- good pace and I believe it will continue to be the case.
-
- The 'running out of gas' thing is pure marketing drivel and I have
- heard many marketing depts calling the other one as such.
-
- Darwin's law of 'survival of the fittest' very aptly applies
- to this business as well. Its not the most elegant or beautiful
- animal will survive - its one that knows or figures out how to
- survive.
-
- renu raman
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