Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!bio.embnet.se!sunic!uts!engeje From: engeje@uts.uni-c.dk (Jacob Engelbrecht) Newsgroups: bionet.software Subject: Information on HP 720 RISC workstation Message-ID: <1991Mar27.162025.17163@uts.uni-c.dk> Date: 27 Mar 91 16:20:25 GMT Sender: engeje@uts.uni-c.dk (Jacob Engelbrecht) Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education Lines: 9 Has anyone any information - or better experience - with the new HP RISC series 700, in biological sequence analysis. It's performance/price ratio looks very impressive: 17.0 MFLOPS for about $15,000 for a HP 720. I know nothing of the HP-UX dialect of UNIX and would like to know if anybody has experience with it compared to SUN and SGI which are the other alternatives I have considered.