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From: rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: PRISM II cancellation?
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.172350.10191@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 17:23:50 GMT
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I have received information via somebody who has PRISM II upgrade
for the DN10K on order that this upgrade has been cancelled
as a product.  A recently as a month ago, I had heard from
"deep background" sources that the upgrade was now in beta.

Could somebody please confirm or deny the rumor of the death
of PRISM II?  If PRISM II is being cancelled, is HP/A going
to do something to compensate us DN10K suckers for machines 
which will be (even more) obsolete overnight?  

When I bought my 10k, various Apollo press releases were 
holding out promises of doubling the performance every year
with board swaps.  This was one of the things that made
the 10k look attractive against other platforms.  IBM
made similar announcements when it released its R6000
product line, and so far they have made good on their
upgrade claims.  You can draw your own conclusions from
this as to whom to bet your future on.  
.