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From: rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert)
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Subject: Re: HP Hype
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Date: 28 Apr 91 06:10:37 GMT
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According to "FYI",
"But regardless of which HP workstations you are using,
Hewlett-Packard will bring you the benefits of open
computing while protecting your investment along the
way." 

According to me:
Gaaaahbidge!

The combination of expensive disks, expensive memory, expensive
maintainence, the evident deconstruction of the compiler development
group for PRism, the apparent death of PrismII and generall
shoddiness have resulted in my $60000 investment in my
DN10k being completely obsoleted in only 1.5 years.  

Happily, I have found an upgrade path for the DN10k.  It
is called an IBM R6000/model 520.  My benchmarks show it running
about twice as fast as my 10k, and I can get it similarly configured
to my 10k for about the cost of buying a second processor and 
memory upgrade;  with what I will save on maintainence over the
next three years, I'll be able to upgrade the 520 to maybe even
a 550, and buy lots of nice third party memory and disks.

Maybe the Snakes are competitive, but after the way I've been
snookered by HP following the merger, no way I'm giving them
my business.
.