[aclug-L] Re: SPARCs vs other stuff

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a 33Mhz SPARCclassic.

I benchmarked it against a Cyrix 486DX2/80...

On floating point math, it was about twice as fast as the Cyrix 486.  On
Integer math, it was about 50% slower, I believe.

A kernel compile (2.2.1 or so) took 3 hours 1 minute.  That was on a 540mb
SCSI hard drive with 48mb 60ns RAM in the SPARC.


On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 04:38:03PM -0500, james l wrote:
> I was wondering how fast old sparc hardware was compared to say 486s or
> Pentiums (we all should know how they are compared to Alphas, slow). Does
> anyone know where there would be a good comparison, or know off the top of
> their head? Say SPARC 1-3s. 
> 
> James L.
> 
> 
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