[rescue] Wanted: Old Sun Hardware

Patrick Finnegan pat at computer-refuge.org
Wed Oct 14 09:01:34 CDT 2009


On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Richard wrote:
> >> I thought when it came to Sun hardware "old" was an adjective
> >>  reserved for 680x0 Suns.
> >
> > By the 10-year rule, a Sun E6500 is "old".. as of last year, even.
> >
> > Pat
> 
> How about "if the system's CPU doesn't have out of order execution it
>  is old" .

Since UltraSPARC-V never came out, Sun's SPARC line never had out-of-
order execution.

Pat
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