[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[Dave McGuire]

On July 6, John F. Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:54:39PM -0400, nick at ns.snowman.net wrote:
> > It all depends on what you are doing.  At rc5 decryption a slow 486 will
> > Stomp on anything up to a [,super,hyper]sparc 100 or 150.  I don't know of
> > any other examples like that, however they exist.
> > 	Nick
> 
> Is that because the 486 has a dedicated floating point coprocessor whereas
> the sparc doesn't?

  Nope...the sparc does too.

   -Dave McGuire