From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 09:28:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A0516A4CF for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:28:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from fuse1.fusemail.net (smtp.fusemail.net [69.31.1.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190E443D2D for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:28:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zhangweiwu@realss.com) Received: from fusemail.com by fuse1.fusemail.net with asmtp (FuseMail extSMTP) id 1B8N2Q-0006p1-S4 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:28:35 -0600 Message-ID: <4069AE17.1010107@realss.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:27:51 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040227 X-Accept-Language: zh-cn, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: about Ultra-sparc and alpha: what makes the difference? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:28:44 -0000 Hello. The question sounds really silly, but google with "compare sparc i386 alpha" / "benchmark sparc i386 alpha" doesn't give meaningful result in several pages. Please suggest me a better keyword compilation:) I don't know about anything other than i386, but the sparc servers and alpha servers are much more expensive than i386 servers on the same clock rate. People keep telling me "they are expensive because they are more advanced", but I prefer to read some comperhasive data, benchmarks and such like. Thank you.