I always salivated over Sun SPARC workstations. I'm kind of sad to hear that the specs of the last SPARC workstation were so … low… but I guess time destroys all things
There are far better SPARC64 servers available, but many are so incredibly loud (looking at you SunFire T1000) that running them outside a dedicated area is not practical.
Got curious and did a quick search - at least on this one sample a regular Core 2 Duo runs circles around the IIIi:
https://www.glennklockwood.com/benchmarks/performance.html#s...