[rescue] interest in RS/6000 591 systems/parts?

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> > Integer-only, it is the speed of a 150MHz Ross HyperSPARC-based SS20,
> > but the FP is a *lot* faster.  More like a 300MHz UltraSPARC.
>
>    I'd guess a lot more than even that.  SPARCs have particularly crappy
> floating point performance.

The SPECfp95 figures are just about the same between the Ultra 2/1300 and
the RS/6000 591.

Peace...  Sridhar