[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote:

> Naw.  Not every year.  But the UltraSPARC III has been out for, what,
> two years?  Shouldn't it be pretty pervasive across Sun's system
> offerings by now?

Warning:  I could just be full of shit on this =)

I recall reading about the USIII on Ace's Hardware a couple years back
and about the interesting approach Sun was taking towards making it
faster.  I seem to recall that basically, Sun counted a lot more on
the memory subsystem being able to keep the processor fed, whereas
P4, G5 et al. were putting huge efforts into their caching subsystem
since they KNEW they would far outstrip their memory subsystem.

Now, part of why P4, G4, etc. don't use a kicking memory subsystem
with interleaving and all that is it would be VERY expensive.  So,
why would Sun do that on their PC-competing products?  They probably
need to use the USIIe just to be able to keep that price point.

Am I wrong?

--Kurt