Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun slowness (was: Re: RISC v. CISC (really, context-s)
Message-ID: <424@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 18:42:48 GMT
References: <181648@<1988Oct28> <28200222@urbsdc> <360@auspex.UUCP> <52@sopwith.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >|>Yep, SUN keeps making liars out of the people who say that the CPU
 >|>has ceased to be a bottleneck. :-)
 >|
 >|s/the CPU/memory - most of the slowness I've seen on Suns has been due
 >|to paging.
 >
 >Yes, but what is the paging due to?

Big software.  What did you expect - paging due to a slow CPU?