[rescue] 3 O2s

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 08:52 PM, Dan Sikorski wrote:
>>    FYI for anyone who doesn't know, most Indigo2 configs will kick the 
>> snot
>> out of an O2 R5K/180.  I "upgraded" to one a few years ago from an 
>> Indigo2
>> R4400/250.  The O2 was on my desk for less than six hours, and in my
>> posession for less than 24.
>
> Hmm.... I have one of each of those machines and i always figured that
> the o2 was the faster machine

   It's natural to assume that, I suppose.  But that's not the way it 
worked out.

>  (doesn't it have far superior memory
> bandwidth?).  What makes it slower? is it a cache or processor design
> issue?

  I have no idea where the bottleneck was.  I was so disgusted with the 
abyssmal performance compared to the Indigo2 that I just got rid of it.

        -Dave

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