Daniel Kosack asks: > The S/930 was the first PA-RISC 3000 marketed, right? Does someone > have a benchmark? Also, I take it these beasties are getting on just > like the Classic systems. Are they attainable relatively inexpensively > so that those of us who still use Classic systems, but don't need mega > power, may be able to get MPE/iX 5.0 compatibility for not so much money? The Series 930 wasn't really intended to be a customer system I believe, it was more of a development system. Its CPU was implemented in discrete TTL logic (there was no PA-RISC CPU chip then!). It was also released as the HP9000/840, and there are probably a couple of these still around. HP later quietly upgraded all 930 sites to 950s (for free). For a long time HP kept a few 930s around because it was the only system that supported a performance measurement card that could actually tell you very low-level information like cache misses, register interlocks, etc. A year or two ago I was at the Mountain View Response Center and they still had one running. I saw one just the other day in an HP computer room, but it was turned off and someone made a comment of the sort: "What's that thing doing there I thought it was going to be hauled away for scrap?" Denys may have had the first 950 shipped to a customer site (actually I thought it was Compaq who got the first one), but *I* had the first HPPA system running outside of HP (first 930 beta machine). Nyeah. :-) G.