Re: UltraSPARC IV

On 06/04/2004 04:14:19 PM, Tim Johnston wrote:
> Anyone have real world experience with the UltraSPARC IV chip yet? They
> claim a near linear scale ( 1 IV almost = 2 III's ) but I'm wondering if
> anyone has seen these in action...

How did they compare? Hopefully, that claim is not based on dhrystone MIPS? You know what MIPS stands for, don't you? (MIPS = Marketing Invention for Pushing Sales).

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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA



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