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From: csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Rowan Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000 s 700 questions ????
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.055440.12663@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 6 Apr 91 05:54:40 GMT
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In <48580009@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> jbc@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Jeff Caldwell) writes:

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>Machine             Price      MFLOPs      Cost per MFLOP
>------------      --------    -------      ---------------
>IBM 6000/550      $138,000      25           $5,500
>HP  9000/730        19,900      22              900

>   It looks close, folks :-)
>			-Jeff Caldwell

Are you sure its 20grand. We've been quoted $A105000 for a 9000/750 in
Oz;  128M and 2.4Gb. $Oz = 76c US.
Perhaps there's a massive markup across the Pacific, or you've left
out a zero. I'm keen to see the HP's benchmark for programs that
don't fit inside its very large, but slowish cache.

Rowan Hughes
James Cook University,  Australia.
csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au