Article: 16553 of comp.sys.sun.hardware From: spooferman@excite.com (Mike Spooner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: Re: sparc psr numbers, I'm confused, please help.... Date: 20 Feb 2003 09:38:58 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2b5407b9.0302200938.a68488a@posting.google.com> References: <57e04fa3.0302170201.b9d8b01@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.137.11.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1045762738 17714 127.0.0.1 (20 Feb 2003 17:38:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Feb 2003 17:38:58 GMT Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net comp.sys.sun.admin:9327 comp.sys.sun.hardware:16553 comp.sys.sun.misc:2932 njh@physiol.ox.ac.uk (Neil Hoggarth) wrote in message news:... > In article <57e04fa3.0302170201.b9d8b01@posting.google.com>, > Domiel FourtyTwo wrote: > > > After reading the SPARC Architecture manual V8 I tried to figure out > > which manufacturer and revision of the IU and FPU are in my SS2 > > It may not be relevent, but I think that the processor in a > SPARCstation 2 likely to be V7 architecture? I think the earliest > SPARC V8 chips were the HyperSPARCs (as found in SPARCstation 10 > and 20). > The SS2 uses a SPARC-V7-architecture CPU. The SPARC-V8 CPUs, from oldest to newest, are: SuperSPARC, used in SS10, SS20, SS1000, SC2000 and CS6400 microSPARC, used in LX, ZX, Classic, SPARCstorage Array-X00 HyperSPARC (Colorado-1 and -2), usable in SS10, SS20 microSPARC-II, used in SS4, SS5, and RSM-2000 Array HyperSPARC (Colorado-3), usable in SS10, SS20 turboSPARC, used in SS5 model 170 SuperSPARC-II, used in SS10, SS20, SS1000, SC2000 and CS6400 HyperSPARC (Colorado-4), usable in SS10, SS20 microSPARC-IIep, for OEM embedded-systems