Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!spot From: spot@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Snake Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 15:39:58 GMT References: <69465@brunix.UUCP> <3284@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: netnews@cs.cmu.edu (USENET News Group Software) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM's message of 22 Mar 91 13:58:08 GMT In article <3284@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes: In article <69465@brunix.UUCP> cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes: | In today's New York Times, there is an article about the new HP Snake line. | The story places the low-end Snake (720?) at 57 MIPS, 55 Specmarks for | $12,000. Assuming that this is what it sounds like, the next question is software. Does it run UNIX, and have X, and have {name it} application software? I don't know, but it will probably run HP-UX like all its predecessors. Now, whether or not you call that unix is another question... :) But seriously, HP-UX is a rather dusty, but reliable version of SysV. I'd live with it to get that much CPU. My questions are: When will they be available in volume, ie, when does it become real? Until then, it's just a marketdroid scheme to hurt the competition and grab publicity. and What technology/process are they using? One chip? Clock? -- christianity is stupid Scott Draves communism is good spot@cs.cmu.edu give up