redder Posted March 13, 2006 Posted March 13, 2006 I was watching Sun's site and saw the workstations they make such as the ones using SPARC processors, i was wondering, how powerful are they compared to a "normal/domestic" computer, and could they be considered a "normal/domestic" computer?Does XP run on top of SPARC?
Zxian Posted March 14, 2006 Posted March 14, 2006 What are SPARC processors?Wikipedia my friend...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCOne of the big reasons why XP will not run on the SPARC processor is because it is a RISC architecture, while XP is compiled for CISC architecture, specifically IA32 - aka X86. For a comparison of the two, read over the following two articles. RISC - Reduced Instruction Set ComputerCISC - Complex Instruction Set Computer
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