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From: mike@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike McNelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Future of Apollo
Message-ID: <8570001@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 15:32:05 GMT
References: <8906020235.AA00380@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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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.

Sorry but HP doesn't make a 390.  The HP9000 Series 370 is currently the
top of the Motorola 68030 based machines.  BTW, be wary of what you
read; religion frequently gets in the way of fact.

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

Mike McNelly
mike%hpfcla@hplabs.hp.com