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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Rub your feet on the carpet!
Date: Thu,  2 Oct 2003 13:54:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <037501c38899$1c0d66c0$c901a8c0@cc77109e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F7BAA86.6080007@ameritech.net>

I hope this is correct and useful.

       SPARCstation:   2		IPX		 ELC
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
       PROCESSOR			Fujitsu MB86903	 Fujitsu MB86903
       CPU             CY7C601		or Weitek W8701  or Weitek W8701
       CPU (clock)     40		40		 33
       FPU             TI TMS390C601A	on CPU chip	 on CPU chip
       MMU             Sun-4c		Sun-4c		 sun-4c
       Hard. Contexts  16		8		 8

other stuff at http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/faq_hardware/hwref1.html

> Yes and no. The SPARC architecture defines the generic rules
> for designing a SPARCv8 implementation, but does leave much up
> to the designer. For example:
>
>     + MMU implementation can be either the SPARC reference MMU
>       or an implementation of the designer's choice. The capability
>       of the MMU has a huge impact on the design of supervisor code,
>       obviously.
>
>     + Ancillary registers for implementation specific functionality
>       are left up to the designer as to use
>
>     + much Coprocessor/FPU functionality is implementation dependent.
>       The MB86903 has an onboard FPU, but I have no details on its
>       specific capability.
>
etc


      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-02  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-01 21:25 northern snowfall
2003-10-02  2:23 ` Martin Harriss
2003-10-02  4:07   ` ron minnich
2003-10-02  7:04     ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-02  8:15       ` northern snowfall
2003-10-02  8:58         ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-02  8:16       ` northern snowfall
2003-10-02 13:58       ` ron minnich
2003-10-02  4:33   ` northern snowfall
2003-10-02  3:54     ` Bruce Ellis [this message]

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