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From: rclark@bgphp1.UUCP (Roger N. Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP825 math 15x SLOWER than 825
Message-ID: <830012@bgphp1.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 14:08:54 GMT
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> We recently celebrated the fact that 800 series computers had been shipping
> for one year with no failures.
> 
> Bob Campbell                Some times I wish that I could stop you from 
> campbelr@hpda.hp.com        talking, when I hear the silly things you say.
> Hewlett Packard                                    - Elvis Costello
> HP-UX System Interface & Recovery Testing

That is incredible!  But do I take it the HP Neeley Sales Region
825 that I did my benchmark on with the bad floating point is the
FIRST failure?  Or does that machine not count (because it wasn't
shipped to a customer)?  In any event, it is very impressive.  Could
HP give some indication of how many 825 years that is (at least to
an order of magnitude or so)?  What is the MTBF for a typical cpu +
memory + I/O boards?

Roger N. Clark
bgphp1!rclark