[geeks] RC5 on old machines

Kris Kirby geeks at sunhelp.org
Thu Dec 13 16:08:55 CST 2001


On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   I didn't see anything tagged with a [0] above, but if you're talking
> about one of the SPARCstations, Weitek made a lot of SPARC-related FPU
> chips.  In those instances, having a Weitek label doesn't mean they're
> upgrade chips of any sort.

[0] was supposed to be the IPC.

>   Since a lot of PeeCee weenies seem to benchmark their machines using
> RC5, I find this interesting.

Yeah, and I do know that it is a poor benchmark. But Benchmarks are just
that, unfortunatly.

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