[Sunhelp] Mhz rating for chip?

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: james [mailto:james at foonly.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 2:00 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Mhz rating for chip?
> 
> The SS10 came out before the SS5.  The order of release of the sun4m
> pizzaboxes was SS10, SS20, SS5, SS4.  The SS10 was the 
> high-end solution
> at the time and the SS5 was the low end, so it's possible for an older
> SS10 to be more capable.

So what are the architectural differences between the MicroSPARC chips used
in the SS4/5 and the SuperSPARCs in the SS10/20?  I had thought that the
SuperSPARCs were faster clock for clock than the MicroSPARCs, and if they
are, why did they put MicroSPARCs in the SS4/5?
	Greg