On 2007/08/02 15:06, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > you can't compare speed by just looking at the MHz.

hence my 'if' which I would have expanded upon had I not
been writing a quick off-list message.

> A most instructive example where the old sun4m machines, where
> according to the SPEC figures an SS20 with a 75 MHz SuperSPARC SM71
> CPU module was about three times as fast as an SS5 with a 70 MHz
> MicroSPARC.

...and an SS5 was enough to run an entire ISP on. I think that
one stayed running older SunOS after Solaris came out though (-:

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