Subject: Re: New Marvel machines? New news? From: "John Smith" Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:00:44 GMT Newsgroups: comp.os.vms "Bill Todd" wrote in message news:bAednQNQFcS-iIijXTWcqQ@metrocast.net... >> >> "Lyndon Bartels" wrote in message >> news:3E14B1BB.D664332@pressenter.com... > >>> > The last I heard, HP was supposed to announce the new EV7 (Marvel) >>> > machines this month. >>> > >>> > >>> > Any new information? Gossip? > >> >> Some fairly encouraging 1150 MHz EV7 SPECOMP2001 (multi-processor) >> performance numbers (over 60% better than Itanic2, well over twice the >> PA-RISC scores, 10% - 20% better than the new 1.45 GHz 130 nm POWER4) have >> just been quoted in the News&Views forum at realworldtech.com. Too bad Compaq didn't get these out the door when originally scheduled. With performance numbers like these at original schedule release date, IA-64 would have been stillborn (may yet anyway), and HP might have licensed Alpha rather than buying the company. But that's the way the cookie crumbles when you have incompetents at the top.