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From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: 800 CISC? (was Re: Dream System)
Keywords: Rolls Royce, but poor marketing...
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.221231.1338@eye.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 22:12:31 GMT
References: <54@gauss.mmlai.UUCP> <25849@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
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In article <25849@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) writes:
>
>Let's see SPECmarks, not MIPS!  What do MIPS mean when comparing
>between RISC (SPARC) and CISC (800?) architectures?  Let's see

blather blather blather

>I don't know about Tony's area, but at the University of Florida (the
>premier Florida Engineering University, perhaps one of the big 3 or 4
>in the Southeast) the HP reps are incredibly uninformed about the
>workstation product line.

blather blather blather

>One last note: anyone who cares to dispute these points should attack
>my facts, not my attitude.

How about not flaming a company or product line until YOU get a little
less uninformed about both.  The FACT is that the HP 835 is a RISC
machine, and IMHO a damn fine one.
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Paul B. Booth  (paul@eye.com) (...!hplabs!hpfcla!eye!paul)
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