Sparcstation 2

[Paul Nulsen]

I am in the process of buying workstations. The main contenders are IBM
RS6000 (model 320), DEC 5000 (model 200) and, as of tomorrow, the
Sparcstation 2. According to my information, the IBM and DEC machines are
fairly close, with the IBM machine having a bit of an edge in floating
point performance. The glossies from SUN suggest that the Sparcstation 2
has about the same performance.

Has anyone got some real benchmarks for these machines? I am particularly
interested in floating point. Comparative numbers would be most helpful.

Thanks.

Paul Nulsen
pejn at wolfen.cc.uow.edu.au