Hi,

Thanks to all that replied.  An ultra II/200x2 is on it's way from
some folks in Germany and when I'm in the US next month I'll pick
up the 2 cheap 300mhz Utrasparc II cpus.

Thanks again to all!

cheers

bruce

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 06:31:30PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Jun 20, 2005, at 3:22 AM, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> 
> >I have one existing sparc system (ss4, 110mhz) that compared to the  
> >other systems
> >(say a 200mhz 604e) is quite underwhelming.  Are the Supersparcs  
> >and hypersparcs
> >likely to be as slow as the microsparc IIs?  And how does the Ultra  
> >2 compare
> >to the Supersparcs and hypersparcs?
> 
> The MicroSPARC / MicroSPARC-II is slow for its clock speed, mostly  
> because of a ridiculously small cache.
> 
> My dual-60MHz SuperSPARC SS20 feels pretty peppy.  Even my  
> single-75MHz SuperSPARC-II SS20 isn't too shabby (assuming I have a  
> userland build -mcpu=supersparc).
> 
> -- thorpej
> 

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