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From: fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000/700 ?
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Date: 29 Mar 91 01:45:08 GMT
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In article <91086.114156X03@psuvm.psu.edu> X03@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>HP 9000/700 was supposed to have been announced officially yesterday.  Can
>someone who knows this post some information:  performance, price, software
>availability,...

Software availability is not an issue, since HP 9000 S800 binaries "should"
run unmodified on HP9000 S700.  Unlike the IBM 6000 the Series 700 is
compatable with the previous revision of the architecture, so there is a
large body of software already available to run on the Series 700.  Note
that you can run Series 800 binaries on a Series 700, you can not run
Series 700 biniaries on a Series 800 (unless you cross-compile).

We took our large, sophisticated application over to the S700, and it ran
like a charm.  We took our large, complex development environment, which
includes many custom tools, over to the the HP 9000 S700, and it ran many
times faster.

nice box...

regards,
fletcher

Fletcher Kittredge
Platforms and Tools Group, BBN Software Products
10 Fawcett Street,  Cambridge, MA. 02138
617-873-3465  /  fkittred@bbn.com  /  fkittred@das.harvard.edu