Your article "Intel Pushes the 80x86 Envelope" (April News & Views) included a chart on the SPECint92 projections for enterprise workstation CPUs. The performance of Hewlett-Packard's high-end workstation PA-RISC chips was not stated at all, whereas other vendors (e.g., Sun Microsystems and Mips) quoted numbers for some of their high- and low-end performance chip families. I believe we should have the same opportunity: Our high-end PA-RISC 7150 chips now achieve a 135 SPECint92 rating. By 1996, we project the PA-RISC 8000 chip will perform at over 500 SPECint92 marks.
Jan Silverman
Advanced Technology Marketing Manager
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Cupertino, CA
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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SPECint92 Projections for PA-RISC
