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What were the strong points of the SPARC CPU design?
None, pure advertising and the little desire to change platforms in large companies with gigantic maintenance contracts and in-house Solaris software.

The same Intel Sun servers were a lot more powerful than the Sparc ones in that era. I bought a Sun Blade 1500 at the time of my Fuel and It was very dissapointing, very noisy and slow. Low specs graphics cards, etc.

I also have Netra and Sun Fire and any Intel -or AMD- server is way faster with a fration of the cost, even Sun Cobalts are better servers.