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sparc

  • 04-04-2006 4:14pm
    #1
    weeder
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    can someone give me some information on sparc?
    is it like PPC when 200MHz is equal to about 1GHz of pc power?
    im thinking of buuying one fromn gline but i need some info about it first


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  • #2
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Check wikipedia. To answer your question, Sparc's are RISC processors, and they can whip the crap out of x86's at equivalent megahertz.


  • #3
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computing. Less instructions that run more efficiently, thereby giving better performance. Sun make them.

    If you don't mind me asking, how do you indend using the system? It's not as if you can go out and buy software for them in PC World (not that I would for a minute condone purchasing software in PC World).


  • #4
    weeder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭weeder


    selling a sun ultra1 workstation, 1GB memory, 2x18GB SCSI, SCSI DVDROM, onboard graphics, onboard nic + sun keyboard and mouse. 150 ONO euro.

    was what i was offered
    im learning to use servers deployment setup etc


  • #5
    Snowbat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    http://www.google.com/search?q=benchmarks+sun+ultra+1+pentium

    In the benchmarks I've looked at, a Pentium Pro 200 always comes in slightly ahead of a Sun Ultra-1 167MHz, so you could probably place it somewhere between a Pentium 150 and a Pentium II 266 in performance (depending on application). In fairness the Ultra 1 is an old machine - launched November 1995.

    AMD K5/K6 and Pentium II were RISC cores behind x86 instruction decoders. Since then AMD and Intel moved to hybrid designs using both RISC and CISC features.


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