[SunRescue] Q: Regarding Sun Educator promo Ultra 5 system

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:34:02PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> *sigh*
> So I DID remember right... sortof :)
> Does anyone else find it dumb that they sell a low end config
> with a higher Mhz rating than their "mid" configuration?  
> --Kurt

Dont look at the Mhz - look at the cache.

As an example, I had two systems:

Ultra 5, 270mhz, 256k cache
Ultra 1, 200mhz, 512k cache

The U1 with 512k cache was effectively FASTER at a lot of things due
to the increased cache - it made up for the difference in mhz.

I'll take a slower CPU with bigger cache anyday.

Bill

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