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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: UltraSPARC and MicroSPARC vs Pentium Pro ?
To: black@gage.com (Ben Black)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:23:33 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <9702121917.AA22714@squid.gage.com> from "Ben Black" at Feb 12, 97 01:17:48 pm
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Ben Black wrote:
> 
[snip]
>
> as for "killing the snot out of Sun" in integer performance, the SPECint95  
> numbers just don't show it:
> 
>                            SPECint95   SPECfp95
> Intel Alder 200MHz P6         8.09        6.75
> Sun Ultra 2 1200 200MHz       7.72       11.1
> 
> if i get a chance, i will run the HiNT benchmarks on an UltraSPARC and a P6  
> here.  i doubt i will see any snot flying from the Sun.
> 
> benchmarks, of course, can always say what you want them to.

Ben,
	please read the paper, run teh benchmarks, understand why spec
	is dubious.  then lets talk about it ;)
jmb

ps.	how many processors in that Sun Ultra 2 1200 ??
	i dont have  a sun catalog/price list here at home.