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From: scottg@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Scott_Gulland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Future of Apollo
Message-ID: <2000001@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 89 05:35:39 GMT
References: <8906020235.AA00380@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: HP Indus. Appl. Center, Sunnyvale, CA
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>>   Interesting question:  Which is technically better PRISM or SPECTRUM?
>>
>>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.

I not surprised, the HP370 is a 68000 based and is not part of the HP-PA
family.  The 390 on the other hand doesn't exist.

scottg@hpiacla
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