[rescue] Help needed with Sun V65x

[Lionel Peterson]

Early Celerons were. (As I understand it) functionSl, but not full-featured
Pentiums, so yes.

The cache was a fraction of a 'regular' CPU, as I recall.

Later Celerons were much better, some are now fairly reasonable desktop/laptop
CPUs where power/battery life are a big concern.

Lionel

> On Feb 18, 2014, at 9:42 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
>
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors
>
> Depends on which generation of core you want to talk about - I think the
Tualatin Celerons were based on PIII's that didn't meet spec?
>
> Cheers
>
> Patrick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:17:30 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Help needed with Sun V65x
>
> I think there was a performance gap that tilted towards the UltraSPARC IIe
> (the 2000-era Celerons really inhaled deeply)...
>
> What was a mainstream desktop processor selling for at the time? That would
be
> a fairer comparison I suspect. Were Celerons P3-based in 2000?
>
> Lionel
>
>>> On Feb 18, 2014, at 6:10 PM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/18/2014 05:39 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>>> Actually to compete, they would have to change the:
>>>
>>> Ethernet from 100 to gigabit
>>>
>>> Ide to sata, or at least to handle greater than 137gb
>>>
>>> Also. So that would be a board revision, possibly a few chips swapped.
>>
>> The core problem is that SPARCs were, and are, expensive.  I dug up a
couple
> press releases with pricing from 2000.
>>
>> Intel Celeron
>> 766 MHz: $170
>> 733 MHz: $112
>>
>> UltraSPARC IIe
>> 500 MHz: $357
>> 400 MHz: $230
>>
>> This is probably the closest that SPARC and x86 ever got in price.
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