Retrochallenge, 2005

Tim Riker Tim at rikers.org
Tue Jun 14 16:41:04 CDT 2005


Ronald Wayne wrote:
> The Sun 3 is based upon a 68020, so the multiplier is 2.
> 
> On 6/14/05, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
> 
>>looking at the points/multipier a Sun 3/60 running <mumble>BSD will be the 
>>knee of the effort/points curve.

hence the "knee" unless you know of a system that can do the same on one
of the 3 based processors. The point being that doing all the protocols
on a 2 based system is fairly easy. And doing even one of them on a 3 is
a challenge.

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