> "I wouldn't even go so far as to use the word "precisely" in that sentence. > The two architectures are related in much the same way that the ROSS > HyperSparc in my SparcStation 20 is related to the T5220 Server ( 8 Core > 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2 Processor ). Someone may look at me sipping a coffee > and say that my DNA is very similar to that of a brightly coloured primate > swinging about in a tree somewhere in South America. The distance between > the 60MHz ROSS HyperSparc and the T2 processor is probably about the same, > qualitatively. The SparcStation 20 will run Solaris 8 perfectly and I do eat > bananas also. These are quasi-useless comparisons however. The real nut of > the issue is that neither the primate nor the SparcStation 20 will be in > used for any modern engineering problem solving. I hope. - Dennis Clarke" > > Well, remember that stable CPUs in use are sometimes not the latest and > greatest ones with all the fancy flip in the chips. We still do use chips > not even as fast or powerful as the Intel 8086! We could wait for that IBM > POWER7 rack though....
ha .. no I think you see the point that I was trying to make. I'm willing to work with what works well and has some legs into the future. If we had a SparcStation 20 and it was 1995 then we would be in good shape for ten years. What we need right now is a forward looking plan, after we are past the first baby steps fall over stage, that takes us forwards long term. > In saying that, seems like FreeScale e600-based (aka PowerPC G4) solutions > are safe for now. The issue is the drivers and the serial ports and things like that. I see the benefits of a single processor single core .. at the moment. Dennis
