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From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 28 Jan 1996 21:43:41 -0800
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In article <4eenvh$kad@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>,
Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>I just got back from USENIX, where Larry McVoy talked about his lmbench
>results on several platforms, including the UltraSPARC.  The numbers looked
>"ok", but not really all that dashing.

I suppose it depends on how you define good. Sun Marketing says
that a two-processor Ultra-SPARC competes well with a single-processor
DEC Alpha. :-)

cjs
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