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From: Ben Black <black@gage.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 97 10:14:38 -0600
To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: UltraSPARC and MicroSPARC vs Pentium Pro ?
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>Ben,
>	please read the paper, run teh benchmarks, understand why spec
>	is dubious.  then lets talk about it ;)
>jmb
>

*all* benchmarks are dubious, as i said in my post.

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

just one CPU.  the 2200 is the dual CPU version.


b3n