Subject: Re: some observations on the peripheral market
To: Robbie Stone <rstone@vitelus.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/11/1999 20:55:28
  The IPX and the '2 aren't the same chipset...the IPX has 8 contexts and the
'2 has 16.  They're both clocked at 40MHz, though.

          -Dave McGuire

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Robbie Stone wrote:
>Yeah, it is, an IPC is a "Lunchified" Sparc 1plus(25 mhz sparc) and an IPX
>is a "lunchified" Sparc 2(which is a 40mhz sparc)
>
>Please note that lunchified is compared to "pizzaified" referring to the
>box it's in
>
>-----------------------------
>Robbie Stone, rstone@vitelus.com
>Serendipity Simplex
>
>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 11:51:30AM -0800, SAVE MY WALRUS wrote:
>> > Indeed.  The Sun4c line is at least eight years old, and the Sun-3 line is
>> > at least that far _beyond EOL_.  My IPX zips along not too badly considering
>> > it's a, what, 25MHz box?  or is it 40?  [my mips.c program seems to want
>> > to calculate it at about 40 MIPS, but I must be doing something wrong...]
>> > 
>> 
>> I think it's 40. The IPC is 25Mhz, and the ELC 33 and both are older ...
>> They make nice small network servers thouh.
>> 
>> --
>> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>> --
>>