Re: New SPARC Classic

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From: David Lemson
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:57

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ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman) writes:

>songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:

>>Are you sure about this one? What kind of SPARC do they have in
>>there to give twice the performance? I agree with half the price,
>>but I'm not so sure about the twice the performance part. The 
>>name "classic" appeneded on the end make me think of the onld
>>Sparc 1's which are quite a bit slower than the turboes.
>It uses a Tsunami SPARC chip at 50 MHz.  CPU performance is virtually
>equivalent to the SPARCStation 2, so yes, I stand by my above assertion
>that the SSC will have roughly twice the CPU performance of NSTC for
>roughly half the price. :-(

Ok, time to get out those numbers... Anyone have those benchmarks
that were posted last summer that showed that in raw math
capability, the Sparc 2+ was at most 20% faster than a NeXTStation
Turbo...

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From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
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Keywords: sun, classic, sparc
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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