> Wrong on the demise of the Sparc. Oracle just posted a massively
> record breaking TPC-C benchmark using their new Sparc T3 servers,
> something like 30 MILLION TPM.
Oracle has very publically committed to keeping SPARC strong, which is good
news for those of us believe in diversity in the compute-verse. Even so,
SPARC is also supported by Fujitsu, so as they... "[SPARC's] demise has been
greatly exaggerated."
>
> There's also Power aka PPC, formerly used in Apple Macintosh computers,
> and still used on large scale IBM AIX Unix servers, the Power series.
> These also are very high performance.
Just a minor nit here, POWER is not the same thing as PPC. PPC branched
from POWER with strong influences from other vendors and technologies. PPC
has since evolved into a mostly embedded platform, though later POWER
releases are (mostly) compatible with PPC.
One of my former employers (a fossilized System V UNIX vendor) was part of
the alliance that worked on a common UNIX implementation for this processor
family, which sadly, never came to fruition.
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