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From: markley@celece.ucsd.edu (Mike Markley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Future of Apollo
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Date: 6 Jun 89 15:10:46 GMT
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In article <3960002@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM> wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) writes:
>
>   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
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is interesting.  All of the articles that I have read show
Apollo fairly far ahead of HP in the area of context switching
and multi-tasking.  The Apollo DN4500 even context switched
better than the HP370 and 390 minis.

Mike Markley
University of California, San Diego
markley@celece.ucsd.edu
markley@kubrick.ucsd.edu