[rescue] Wanted: Old Sun Hardware

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Wed Oct 14 09:17:48 CDT 2009


Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Richard wrote:
>>>> I thought when it came to Sun hardware "old" was an adjective
>>>>  reserved for 680x0 Suns.
>>> By the 10-year rule, a Sun E6500 is "old".. as of last year, even.
>>>
>>> Pat
>> How about "if the system's CPU doesn't have out of order execution it
>>  is old" .
> 
> Since UltraSPARC-V never came out, Sun's SPARC line never had out-of-
> order execution.
> 
> Pat

I apologize - I had thought that since USIII they had OOE.  Some
research indicates I am wrong about that.

--Patrick



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