> As a newbie myself to sparc and Debian, I have installed the > latest release on an Ultra30 500Mb ram w 248MHz processor. On > a very non-scientific scale i.e. using basic office type apps > and with Apache running - the machine seems quite snappy - > certainly faster than my 566Mhz AMD K6 (w 512Mb RAM) running > Mandrake 9.2. My only other comparison is a 700Mhz Dell GX110 > running Suse 9.1 - seems comparable to this. > > Not scientific - just my impression As a rough rule of thumb, for processors up to (about) the UltraSPARC II series, I'd multiply the clock speed by 1.5 to 2 before looking for a comparable x86 machine. That said, it does depend a lot on the task (i.e. 64 bit arithemetic on the Ultra series) and clock speed is *not* a measure of performance, despite what Intel would have (had) us believe.
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