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Subject: Re: Question for Dr. Hyatt (or any Sun Server fans..)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:13:13 01/07/06

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On January 07, 2006 at 00:02:10, Jay Urbanski wrote:

>On January 06, 2006 at 23:31:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 06, 2006 at 21:04:53, enrico carrisco wrote:
>>
>>>How do these processors stack up for computer chess?  I don't think I've seen
>>>any real information since the days of SPEC actually taken for a reasonable
>>>benchmark for computer chess (before it was found how cache dependendant it
>>>was.)
>>
>>sparcs suck.  as "butt-head" would say (Beavis & butthead) "suns suck like
>>nothing has ever sucked before..."
>>
>
>Second that opinion.  Niagra will be even worse...


Rumor has had it for a while that Sun was going to opterons.  That would be a
reasonable decision for them as suddenly they will be on a "compatible
architecture" again.



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