[rescue] your next Solaris machine ??? (Sol/x86 booting on iMac)

["Javi Mahai <lefa at ucsc.edu>" at ucsc.edu]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:54:52 -0400
  Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp at cloud9.net> wrote:
> SPARC is not a current POWER competitor.  They are 
>behind the curve.   
> Apple would be far more likely to do x64/PowerPC than 
>x64/Sparc.
> 
> The SPARC simply doesn't outperform Power at equal clock 
>and Power  
> runs at a higher clock PPC even higher.


Hum, tell that to Fujitsu and their merry SPARC64 which 
ties and outperforms in some SPEC numbers IBM's latest 
POWER offering. I would say that SPARC is pretty much a 
contender...