Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 23:37:56 06/09/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 22:31:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 08, 2003 at 17:29:30, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On June 08, 2003 at 08:25:17, Peter Berger wrote: >> >>>On June 08, 2003 at 07:43:51, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote: >>> >>>>Tell Me how You think that a P/C with ONLY 650 mhz and ONLY 512 OF Ram is even >>>>worth considering? Wouldn't You think that a Computer like that is >>>>obsolete?>>>>Mike >>> >>>Those are not PCs so you can't simply compair the MHz numbers if you want to >>>compair speed/performance. They are not obsolete, but I agree you wouldn't want >>>to buy one (only) for computerchess at all :). >> >>You're right, an UltraSPARC IIi MHz is worth less than a Pentium 3, Pentium 4, >>or Athlon MHz. :) >> >>-Tom > > >I'm not sure that is totally true. But the problem is they don't make those >3+ gigahertz processors. They are so far behind they will never catch up. And >I really don't believe they intend to try. No, it's true. According to SPEC 2k submissions, the US-IIi is the slowest processor you can buy (per GHz) except for the US-IIe. http://www.aceshardware.com/SPECmine/index.jsp?b=0&s=2&v=4&if=0&r1f=2&r2f=0&m1f=0&m2f=0&o=0&o=1 Even the Pentium 4 gets slightly more SPECints/GHz, the difference being that the P4 runs at 3GHz and the IIi runs at 650MHz. Whoops... too bad for Sun. -Tom
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