[rescue] ooh, pretty

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:52:48PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 03:36 PM, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
>    This isn't an R10K though...this is an R8K.  R8Ks are particularly 
> interesting processors, and machines built around them are particularly 
> rare.

As well, you cannot judge performance of the CPU by looking at the
clock rate.  Look up the specint and specfp numbers for the R8K and
you will be quite surprised.

Also, SGI took the time to custom-code their C library for each CPU.
So while you could usually take a disk from an r10k and boot it on an
r8k machine, the actual machine code would be quite different when you
did a bcopy() for instance.

I am not sure if they had all the same variants in one C library, or
if there was a specific C library for each CPU that was chosen at
install time.

Cordially
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