redder Posted March 13, 2006 Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondercik Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 xp will not run on sparc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix0978 Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 What are SPARC processors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted March 14, 2006 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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