Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!mcs.kent.edu!hp5.mcs.kent.edu!bailey From: bailey@hp5.mcs.kent.edu (Jeff Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP9000/7XX ?????? Keywords: RISC MIPS Message-ID: <1991Feb23.070358.20918@mcs.kent.edu> Date: 23 Feb 91 07:03:58 GMT References: <17347@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> Sender: news@mcs.kent.edu (News Administrator) Reply-To: bailey@mcs.kent.edu Organization: Computer Science Dept., Kent State Univ. Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: hp5.mcs.kent.edu In article <17347@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>, bwong@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Brian Wong Shui) writes: |> Does anyone know about the new Precision Architecture RISC workstation |> from Hewlett-Packard. |> |> All I can get out of the sales rep as far as performance goes is 50 MIPS and |> 10 MFLOPS |> |> Can anyone confirm these numbers or is this workstation a figment of my |> imagination :-) If this workstation does exist, when will it be released |> for general consumption? How does it stack up against the IBM RS6000, and the |> Silicon Graphics 4D/35? |> |> What type of graphics options will be available? OSF/1 or HP-UX? |> |> E-Mail replys to brian.wong.shui@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM |> |> Thanks |> |> --Brian Everyone that was in the sales presentation I saw was sworn to secrecy (non-disclosure aggreement), but I can say I *was* impressed. :-) -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jeff Bailey (Sys. Admin.) | The first academic | | Department of Mathematics & | Home: (216) 654-2649 | institution with a | | Computer Science | Dept: (216) 672-2079 | "WaveTracer | | Kent State University | Fax: (216) 672-7824 | Data Transport | | Kent - OH 44242 U.S.A. | Work: (216) 633-9691 | Computer" | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com