greg writes:

>I have 917 sitting in my garage and I just got an access to
>928RX CPU board.??If I?change the CPU board on 917, will it
>actually be a 928RX machine? (I am talking about performance
>and all) or do I need to have the backplane board as well?
>(what is the difference on the backplane - other then being
>able to connect an extra board?)
>
>Thanks in advance for all the help!
>
>Another question - please refresh my memory - User could not
>upgrade from MPE/iX 6.0 to MPE/iX 7.0 if they had HP-IB
>printer - correct?

uh... I don't think so :-)

BTW, while the 928 is faster than the 917 in pure cpu and
has built-in fp (add-on for the 9x7) you can actually make a low-end
9x7 (917-947) box perform better in memory intensive environments
because that 928 has only 8 memory slots and the equivalent 9x7 has 12.

duane

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