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From: jpk@ingres.com (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 80486 v Sparc
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.210512.24028@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 22 Oct 90 21:05:12 GMT
References: <527@inews.intel.com>
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From article <527@inews.intel.com>, by jsweedle@einstein.intel.com (Jonathan Sweedler):
> [25 MHz i486 system gets integer SPEC of 13.0, sparc gets 12.2.]

SPECs are serving us well then.  The conclusion is: they're
comparable.  More precisely, on the tasks you cite, neither
demonstrates significant performance advantage over the other.

Now, which one was first to market?

-- Jon
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Jon Krueger, jpk@ingres.com