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From: perry@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Perry Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000/700 ?
Message-ID: <5570592@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 91 21:22:09 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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>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.

The PA-RISC 1.1 compiler has a few tricks for getting more performance.
If you have the sources, you might try recompiling.  It may run a little
faster, if that matters to you.

But, as you say, the 700 runs 800 binaries just fine.  In fact, most of
the commands (/bin, /usr/bin) are 800 binaries.  Do a "file /bin/*" on a
demo machine and see what I mean.  I have not yet met an 800 executable
that won't run on a 700.

>nice box...

Thanks.

>regards,
>
>Fletcher Kittredge

Perry Scott
HP Ft Collins