On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 12:17:58PM -0800, Greg Earle wrote:
> A. Yes. Monitors and Country Kits are treated differently. With the
>    exception of the special bundle part A21-UFE139J-128CG, monitors are
>    not included as part of the Ultra 5 Marketing Part Numbers. A monitor
>    must be ordered but is ordered as a separate line item. Orders
>    without a monitor will not be accepted.  [...]

Weird. We have about 4 or 5 of those boxes since about a week now, and
they came without a monitor. But maybe the deals for universities
are different (I know they are, but I mean with regard to the monitor).

> But given that
> the Ultra 5 isn't even as fast (SPECint95-wise) as even a now-lowly 233 MHz
> 604e Mac or a 233 MHz Pentium II box [...]

I've not run SPECint95, but I did some other tests, and it was faster
than a 233Mhz PII. It's probably slower than a 300 PII in any case.
I once did a simple dhrystone on a PII-300 and an Ultra2-300, and the
PII came out slightly faster. This was without generating v9 code
for the Ultra, though, I hope the new Sun compilers can do this.

What is clearly better on the Ultra is the task switching performance
And also, you've got yourself a 64bit box.

- Frank