Re: FORSALE: SPARC-20 with Dual-CPUs & SX Graphics

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From: Jason Patterson
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:00

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Anthony Mandic wrote:
> Jason Patterson wrote:
> >      SPARCstation 20/SX model 502  (Tatung clone)
> >        dual 50 MHz SuperSPARC CPU's  (SM50's)
> 
>         Are you sure they are 50s and not 51s? The 50s don't
>         have cache and aren't recommended for SMP.

Trust me they are 50's, and the MP performance is very good despite
having no E-caches. You genuinely get a 2x speedup on parallelizable
tasks (photoshop, parallel makes, raytracing etc).

> >        540 MB hard disk
> 
>         This is a tad on the small side nowadays. A full install
>         of Solaris 7 take about 500MB. Looks like you won't have
>         much room for swap or anything else for that matter.

You can easily add another hard disk, they are very cheap these days.

JASON PATTERSON
 jason@pattosoft.com.au  http://www.pattosoft.com.au/jason

 Imagine that CRAY decides to make a personal computer. It contains 16
 Alpha based processors executing in parallel, has 800 megabytes of RAM,
 9 Gigabytes of disk storage, a resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, does
 24bit 3D graphics in realtime, relies entirely on voice recognition for
 input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300. What is the first
 question the computer community asks?

 "Is it DOS compatible?"

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From: Jason Patterson <jason@pattosoft.com.au>
Subject: Re: FORSALE: SPARC-20 with Dual-CPUs & SX Graphics
Date: 1999/03/13
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