From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Sep 27 20:58:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD6D037B424; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:58:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13eUzm-0000PS-00; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:08:30 -0600 Message-ID: <39D2C43E.1242845B@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:08:30 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Clark Cc: jswarner@uswest.net, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just Imagine.. References: <200009270307.UAA01026@gte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Clark wrote: > > Terry, > I spent a few minutes with a co-worker the other day, > and she proceeded to tell me a story about how the sparc > design (out of Berkeley) competed with the MIPS design (out > of Stanford) for a while. > Being the lore-meister you are, have you any pointers > to reading material of this sort? "Computer Architecture : A Quantitative Approach" by Hennessy and Patterson? They were the designers of the SPARC and MIPS architectures. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message