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From: wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Future of Apollo
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Date: 5 Jun 89 19:01:33 GMT
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   Interesting question:  Which is technically better PRISM or SPECTRUM?

   Joshua Levy

Better for what?  HP-PA (Sinclar makes Spectrum computers) is good at
context switch and IO, and has a lot of headroom for parallell and
fault-tolerant stuff (see the public architecture documents).  PRISM 
is optimised for straight-line, "don't interrupt me" computation.

They may not be directly competing architectures.  I'm not making the
decision, of course.

wunder