SM[567]1/HyperSPARC comparison (was RE: [rescue] SS10/20 death)

[Jeff Brendle]

>As for me, I love having unbalanced systems--my Axil has
>one SM51 and one SM61 and it's always fun to see the look
>on PC-type techies' faces when I explain that.

heh, and mine is a SM71 + SM81 ... one of these days I should buy 
another SS10/20 and whatever CPU I am missing and have two "proper" 
machines. But, fuggit, for now it's working well... and kinda "funny" 
to talk about, I'll agree there....

>[1] SM-61 should be SuperSPARC architecture, while SM71/81 are actually
>     SuperSPARC-II.  *Supposedly* SuperSPARC-II is significantly faster--
>     which is why an SM-71 might actually be worth half again as much
>     as an SM-61.  I've never done any benchmarking on the systems I
>     have, but if anyone cares let me know a good freely-available
>     benchmark suite to run.  I do know that in limited testing a single
>     SM71 was *way* faster than a single 90MHz HyperSPARC, before I
>     sold the HyperSPARC to someone concerned only about MHz.

that wouldn't be bad info to generate, come to think of it. that way 
people would know what the different processor families 
(Super/SuperII/Micro/Hyper) and models are capable of ...  I'm sure 
we have a sufficient mix of hardware out there on the list to get 
most things covered if someone were to locate a suite we could all 
use to collect this data.... I'd be willing to run them on my ss10bsx 
w/ the above CPUs under Sol9. Know that Wonko (Brian H.) had a 
HyperSPARC, single CPU I think....and an Ultra1 was it?
-j
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