On 19 Mar 98 at 16:57, Stigers, Greg ~ AND wrote:

> Funny! I was skulking about the HP Chronicle web site, searched
> for MPE, and read that HP itself is using some 700 3Ks
> internally. This is one-fifth the number of 9000s they are
> using :-( , but they are using


Maybe, but how many of the HP9000's are single user work
stations?  How many of the HP3000's fall into the same category?

People would get a lot clearer picture of where HP computing
resources go if the hp9000 class ONLY consisted of the 800
series servers (how about the HP8000?) while the workstations
(700, 300?, other?) got their own family (HP7700 / HP7300? ).

Without knowing the breakdown of internal 9000 by series it is
really difficult to draw conclusions about the relative
importance of hp3000 to hp9000 machines within HP.

Regards,
Jim
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