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From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000 s 700 questions ????
Message-ID: <3329@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 91 21:24:07 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.121715.25269@qut.edu.au> <48580009@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> <1991Apr6.055440.12663@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
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In article <1991Apr6.055440.12663@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Rowan Hughes) writes:
> In <48580009@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> jbc@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Jeff Caldwell) writes:
> >Machine             Price      MFLOPs      Cost per MFLOP
> >------------      --------    -------      ---------------
> >IBM 6000/550      $138,000      25           $5,500
> >HP  9000/730        19,900      22              900
> 
> Are you sure its 20grand. We've been quoted $A105000 for a 9000/750 in
> Oz;  128M and 2.4Gb. $Oz = 76c US.

  Well, Mr. Caldwell answered a direct question literally, yielding a nice
  7:1 price ratio.  But someone in the market for a 6000/550 machine will
  most likely be looking at an HP 9000/750 in comparison, since that is the
  only model that can really be expanded to anything substantial.  And if
  someone is in a market for a machine of that capacity, one will add quite
  a bit of memory AND some disk to make it useful.  So the price ratio will
  shrink quite a bit.

  Hey, these are (probably - haven't seen any good multitasking nos. yet)
  very nice machines, at the top of the price/performance heap and all that.
  But all the add-ons some of us need to make them useful cost apx. the same
  no matter where you get the cpu from....

   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny
   pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org