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From: lewine@cheshirecat.rtp.dg.com (Donald Lewine)
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Subject: Re: Data General NEW AVIION machine
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.150755.24744@webo.dg.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 15:07:55 GMT
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In article <32580003@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>, linley@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Linley Gwennap) writes:
|> I saw the ad, but not the press release.  Does anybody know if the
|> claims "over 100 MIPS" and "under $100,000" apply to the same system,
|> or is this one of these marketing things.  ("Prices start at under
|> $100,000, but if you want the four-processor system...")
|> 
|> 						--Linley Gwennap
|> 						  Hewlett-Packard Co.
|> 

Yes they do.  You can buy a four CPU system with 16Mb memory and
600 Mb of disk for under $100K.  The system was designed to be
a quad processor and only a quad processor.  That produces much
better price performance than a "scalable" design.


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