April 1 Sun SPEC announcement

[David Hough]

Note that Sun has a long history of unauthorized special announcements 
appearing on April 1.   
But note also that the SPEC disclosure is fully compliant with all 
SPEC reporting rules.

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		SMCC RE-INTRODUCES SPARCSTATION 2

	World's fastest workstation with SPECint92 of 126.8
	Alternative upgrade path for Solaris 1 customers

	MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- April 1, 1993 -- Responding to
customer demand for increased performance without changing their
existing hardware or operating system, Sun Microsystems Computer
Corporation (SMCC) today announced the availability of the
SPARCstation(TM) 2 with the Gnu C compiler bundled.  Originally offered
with modest 21.8 SPECint92 performance in November 1990, the addition
of powerful new compiler technology from the Free Software Foundation
has propelled this venerable workstation to the top performance ranks.
With a SPECint92 of 126.8, the SPARCstation 2 is over 20% faster than
the DEC 10000/610 Alpha AXP.  The new product offers customers an
alternative upgrade path to benefit from greatly increased performance
while retaining their existing Solaris(R) 1 environments.  The
SPARCstation 2 can also operate under Solaris 2 for maximum
flexibility.

	The uniprocessor SPARCstation 2 features a 40 MHz Cypress
CY7C601 SPARC(TM) processor and delivers 126.8 SPECint92 and 22.7
SPECfp92.  The standard configuration includes 32 megabytes of memory
(expandable to 512 megabytes), a 424-megabyte internal disk drive and
GX graphics.  Nineteen-inch grayscale, 19-inch color and 16-inch color
monitor configurations are available.  Under the terms of the Free
Software Foundation "Copyleft", because the system is bundled with Gnu
C, the SPARCstation 2 must be distributed free of charge.  The price
for shipping and handling of a fully-configured color system is $49 for
three day delivery, or $99 for overnight delivery.  All configurations
of the SPARCstation 2 are available immediately.

SPEC disclosure:

                    SPEC Benchmark CINT92 Summary         

RESULTS:        SPEC    SPARCstation 2    Sun Microsystems, Inc.              
             Reference                        SPARCstation 2                  
Benchmark      Time      Time      SPEC           Hardware
No. & Name    (secs)   (secs)     Ratio   Model Number:   SPARCstation 2      
                                          CPU:            40MHz SPARC CY7C601 
008.espresso    2270    96.36      23.6   FPU:            40MHz TI390C602A    
022.li          6210     0.01  621000.0   Number of CPUs: 1                   
023.eqntott     1100    43.25      25.4   Cache Size:     64KB (I+D)        
026.compress    2770   161.33      17.2   Memory:         64MB                
072.sc          4530   147.38      30.7   Disk Subsystem: 2 - 207MB SCSI      
085.gcc         5460   258.09      21.2                   1 - 667MB SCSI      
                                          Network:        Ethernet            
Geometric Mean      SPECint92     126.8           Software
                                          O/S Type & Rev: SunOS 4.1.3        
                                          Compiler Rev:   Gnu C 2.3           
                                          Other Software: 
                                          File System:    UFS                 
                                                    System
                                          Background:     None                
                                          System State:   Single User         

                                          General Availability: November, 1990

Tested on: April 1, 1993  By: SMCC Perf Eng  Of: Mt. View, CA  

Notes:       
All: -O3 -Bstatic   
022.li: -Ddouble=char  DIFFER=/bin/true 'ulimit -c 0'


Description of Compiler Flags:
-Bstatic		Use static linking instead of dynamic
-Ddouble=char		Use characters in place of double precision data type
ulimit -c 0		Prohibit core dumps
DIFFER=/bin/true	Use system "true" command in place of spiff