[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[nick at ns.snowman.net]

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

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 
>   Wow...what OS was this IPX running?  I've always had to get well up
> into the mid-range Pentium family before a PeeCee would perceptibly
> outperform an IPX...*especially* in graphics performance...I've
> always run either SunOS4 or NetBSD/sparc on them.
> 
>           -Dave McGuire
> 
> On July 6, scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> > A SPARCstation IPX running with the PowerUp CPU (40 to 80Mhz) upgrade is not
> > quite as fast as an Intel 486dx2 50Mhz running Linux 6.2.  However, some of
> > the perceived speed difference may be that the IPX appears to have much
> > slower graphics (X-based GUI) than the Intel box.
> > 
> > All of the above is 'seat of the pants' estimates.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chris Gnther [mailto:madram at video.de]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:16 AM
> > To: MailingList SUN Help
> > Subject: [SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > some of you propably do know me and my "little" problem with my SUN IPC.
> > Now - after 6 weeks of consequentely trying to get it work and failling
> > miserably - I come to a point where I'd like to know what exactly I could
> > do with it would ever get it to work.
> > 
> > So my question is:
> > 
> >     How fast or strong is a SUN IPC?
> > 
> > My configuration is as follows:
> > - SUN IPC with WEITEK-Chip
> > - all 12 RAM Banks filled (still don't know how much RAM this is) 
> > - 2GB IBM HDD
> > - a second Framebuffer card
> > - an ISDN-card 
> > - and two 16" SUN-Monitors
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me what exactly I can do with it.
> > 
> > To give you a point on what I normally do with my PC running SOL8:
> > - writing with LaTeX2e
> > - Database-Developing with mySQL (runs on my Server)
> > - C and C++ programming
> > 
> > 
> >     thanks in advance,
> > 
> >         chris
> > 
> > +---------------------------------+
> > |             chris               |
> > | ------------------------------- |
> > |  database design & programming  |
> > |   agentur fiedler / video.de    |
> > |                                 |
> > |                 madram at video.de |
> > +---------------------------------+ 
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