[rescue] SS10/20 death

[Dave McGuire]

On February 5, s at avoidant.org wrote:
> > In fact, I would rather have a dual SM51 system than
> > a quad 100MHz Hypersparc system--but that's just me.
> 
> Why? I happen to have a quad SM51 SS20, and the one thing that keeps
> nagging at me is the possibility of upgrading it to quad 100MHz
> HyperSPARCs. The biggest advantage in my book would be the recovery of
> those two SBUS slots, but I would think performance would improve in
> some way, no?

  SuperSPARCs are much more clock-efficient than HyperSPARCs.  The one
datapoint that I can personally verify is that a single SM61 will
*trounce* a single 125MHz HyperSPARC.

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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