[Gllug] Free PC

[Christian Smith]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Ian Northeast wrote:

>Christian Smith wrote:
>
> > If it is a U1 and not a SS1, I'll take it off your hands if no-one
> > else will:) And I have 4 SPARCs already:)
>
>Oy! Let someone else discover the joys of using an architecture which
>isn't brain dead by design:) (I have a Mac too, and use RS/6000s at
>work, and the SPARC hard/firmware is definitely my favourite).

But they all use Open{Boot|Firmware}, don't they? Don't like the recent
U5/U10/blade hardware. Nasty cheap shite.

To be fair, the SPARC processor is pretty brain dead. Register windows are
a pain to scale from what I've heard. Flat register set is much easier.


>
>Regards, Ian
>

Christian


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