Kosack ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
:   I've never worked with MPE/IV, and I was hoping to get SOMETHING MPEish.
: Can anyone suggest an inexpensive (really cheap) MPE system that won't
: dim the lights in the building?
 
The new low-end is the 918, 928...  previous 917, 927, 937.  Before those were
920, 922, 932, 948, 958... then the 925, 935, 949... and I bet the oldest ones
are the cheapest to get.  The newest ones require least power...
 
Those all are something that do not dim lights anywhere -- almost run
off the smell of the electricity...  well, maybe not quite.
 
Anyway, 948, 958 and 949 are actually capable of running quite large
number of users...  All these CPU's can run the lates MPE/iX stuff.
I would expect there are people getting rid of their 925/935/920/922 -
updating to bigger or newer machines and so on...
 
Performance figures vary from 0.25 (920) to 2.1 (958) relative CPU torque,
all the rest are in between.  For these figures, the reference has been
a classic series 70 = PA-RISC 950 = 1.
 
Cheers,
Eero - HP CSY Networking lab.