earle@jplopto.uucp (Greg Earle (40876)) (07/06/87)
In article <497@winchester.UUCP> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes: >SunRise / SPARC /Sun-4 should be announced this week, >and they ought to be over 20K Dhrystones, too. Alright, I'll bite. What are `SunRise' & `SPARC'? Is the Sun-4 a non vaporware entity now? Is it a RISC based machine, as has been rumored? Can I take it from the context of John's article that this is true (guilt by association (-: ) ? Greg Earle earle@{jplpub1,jplopto}.JPL.NASA.GOV (Now ex-)JPL jpl{pub1,opto}!earle@jpl-elroy.ARPA jpl(pub1,opto}!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV seismo!cit-vax!elroy!jpl{opto,pub1}!earle
mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey) (07/07/87)
In article <4083@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> earle@jplopto.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) writes: >In article <497@winchester.UUCP> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes: >>SunRise / SPARC /Sun-4 should be announced this week, >>and they ought to be over 20K Dhrystones, too. > >Alright, I'll bite. What are `SunRise' & `SPARC'? Is the Sun-4 a >non vaporware entity now? Is it a RISC based machine, as has been rumored? >Can I take it from the context of John's article that this is true (guilt >by association (-: ) ? Guilt by association?? At least short articles are in most of the rags today, but this stuff has been common knowledge around the Valley for a while, i.e., not goodies particularly. As I understand it (Sun-ites can correct me if these are wrong, but): Sun-4 = name for the product line being announced this week SPARC = overall name for the architecture, regardless of the box SunRise = internal code name for the one that goes in a 3/260 box, i.e., each box has a separate name , like SunRay, SunTan, etc. -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc> UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) (07/08/87)
In article <4083@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> earle@jplopto.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) writes: >In article <497@winchester.UUCP> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes: >>SunRise / SPARC /Sun-4 should be announced this week, >>and they ought to be over 20K Dhrystones, too. > >Alright, I'll bite. What are `SunRise' & `SPARC'? Is the Sun-4 a >non vaporware entity now? Is it a RISC based machine, as has been rumored? According to EE Times, June 29 issue, page 13, in Apollo article: "... Sun Microsystems Inc. will headline a show all its own in New York on July 8. The solo performer is Project Sunrise, a 10-Mips workstation that uses a proprietary reduced-instruction set computer (RISC) design implemented in a 20,000-gate CPU produced by Fujitsu." -Fred -- = Drug tests; just say *NO*! = Fred Fish Motorola Computer Division, 3013 S 52nd St, Tempe, Az 85282 USA = seismo!noao!mcdsun!fnf (602) 438-5976