[SunRescue] help with CPU ID
Gregory Leblanc
GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Fri Sep 17 00:36:20 CDT 1999
ok, I'm not thinking too well. It's gotta be something to do with being up
to about 55 hours so far this week....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Lockwood [mailto:lockwood at ISI.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:27 PM
> To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] help with CPU ID
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> Solaris 7 is quite fast (but heavyweight) for everything except SGML
> manpage formatting. It's an order of magnitude slower than nroff.
Isn't solaris7 heavily optimized for the Ultra Sparc (64-bit) SPARC Cpus?
Just something I'd heard tossed around someplace.
>
> The other reason that using SM41's in a SS20 isn't such a hot
> idea is that
> they slow the mbus from 50MHz to 40MHz, losing the primary
> advantage of
> the SS20 over the SS10. A faster CPU (SM50, SM61 or up but
> not the SM51)
Why not the SM51? Isn't that a 50Mhz CPU with 1 meg of cache?
[snip]
Thanks again (sorry I'm posting in my sleep),
Greg
>
> -James
>
>
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