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From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com>
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>,
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Cc: jasonharback <jasonharback@frontiernet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
	Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: Sparc vs i386 architecture
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--- Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
wrote:

> > Hi group, I was just wondering if there's an
> advantage to running FreeBSD on
> > a SPARC than compared with a regular PC.
> Obviously the architecture is
> > different (CISC vs RISC). How ever you can
> purchase a higher powered PC box
> > for less money than it would cost for a
> SPARC.
> >
> user Opteron/Athlon64 - better than both :)
> 
> AMD made RISC-like architecture that just runs
> i386-like code (i386+more 
> registers and few extra instructions, while
> lots of mostly-unused 
> instructions emulated).

Thats hilarious, a "reduced instruction set"
processor that has extra instructions! Good one!

DT


		
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