[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Joel Bernstein]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:53:50AM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Joel Bernstein wrote:
> 
> >>Sorry but v7, v8?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >SPARCv7 vs SPARCv8 CPU architectures. 
> >
> 
> Ahh I see.  I must confess limited knowledge of sparc architecture. Too 
> expensive and too slow for anything I've ever needed to do.

Too slow? Are you making the common mistake of assuming that MHz is a
decent measurement of CPU performance across architectures? It would be
disingenuous to assume that a Sun UltraSPARC III 800MHz CPU is slower
than an Intel P3 1GHz because the Intel chip runs more cycles per
second.

/joel
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