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From: lewine@cheshirecat.rtp.dg.com (Donald Lewine)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Snake
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.221120.6725@webo.dg.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 22:11:20 GMT
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In article <32580004@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>, linley@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Linley Gwennap) writes:
|> 
|> Yes, these system run UNIX (HP-UX) and most common applications, over
|> 2000 total.  All Series 700 systems are also source-code compatible
|> with our popular Motorola-based workstations.  By the way, if you need
|> more performance, a 66 Mhz Model 730 is available for $20,000.
|> 
|> 						--Linley Gwennap
|> 						  Hewlett-Packard
|> 
Are the new PA machines binary compatible with the old ones?  Reading
the press, it sounds like there are new instructions in the new 
machines so that while the old programs will run, the full performance
will not be achieved unless you recompile.  Is this true?

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