Re:'taint no CPU advances going to help Sun now (Score 1)

Number one really does not matter as much as you may think. With up to 4 processors and 32 Gb of memrory per board and Solaris's processor affinity, you don't need to go on the backplane much. Primarily I/O which is still slow compared to memory access speeds and is limited by the PCI buses. For those that do not know, processor affinity in Solaris is where the OS keeps the processes running on a processor on the memory local to that processor. With the dual core Sparc IV chips you can have 8 processors per board, though still limited to 32 Gb of memory.