[rescue] interest in RS/6000 591 systems/parts?

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 01:20 AM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
>>> Integer-only, it is the speed of a 150MHz Ross HyperSPARC-based SS20,
>>> but the FP is a *lot* faster.  More like a 300MHz UltraSPARC.
>>
>>    I'd guess a lot more than even that.  SPARCs have particularly 
>> crappy
>> floating point performance.
>
> The SPECfp95 figures are just about the same between the Ultra 2/1300 
> and
> the RS/6000 591.

   Hmm, surprising.

      -Dave

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