[rescue] Wanted: Old Sun Hardware

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 09:04:37 CDT 2009


Patrick Finnegan 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.
>> 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.

Well, that, and there are new CPUs being developed even today without 
out-of-order execution.

Peace...  Sridhar



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