bishop@waterloo.hp.com (Barry Bishop) (04/26/91)
HP INTRODUCES RISC-BASED X-TERMINALS
WITH INDUSTRY-LEADING PRICE/PERFORMANCE
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 16, 1991 -- Hewlett-Packard Company
today introduced the HP 700/RX family of RISC-based high-performance X
Window stations.
HP believes it is the first company to deliver a family of X
terminals based on RISC architecture, and the first to deliver X
terminals with X Window System performance comparable to that of
entry-level workstations.
The HP 700/RX family incorporates an Intel i960 superscalar
processor that allows the new X terminals to deliver performance
levels exceeding those of competitive X terminals by a factor of two
to four at comparable or lower price points.
"The new 700/RX stations are an ideal companion to the HP
Apollo 9000 Series 700 PA-RISC workstations we introduced in March,"
said Willem P. (Wim) Roelandts, general manager of HP's Networked
Systems Group.
"Customers now can run software on the industry's most
powerful workstations, the Series 700, and access that software from
the industry's fastest X stations. This results in a dramatic
price/performance improvement for users who want the administrative
simplicity of a terminal and the interactive performance of a
workstation."
HP's market research indicates significant user frustration
with wait times associated with existing X terminals. The significant
improvement in X Window System performance in the HP 700/RX family
makes these X stations an attractive solution for applications that
require levels of interactive performance previously available only on
workstations, HP said.
When combined with HP's recently-introduced Series 700
workstations, the HP 700/RX stations deliver leading desktop
price/performance, which is critical for users who require access to
peak computing power, such as software-development engineers or
financial analysts.
The HP 700/RX stations also are targeted at business and
technical applications such as geographic-information systems,
mechanical computer-aided design, desktop publishing, business
graphics, and office and manufacturing automation. Users in these
fields require a high-performance graphics station to access and
display simultaneously software that may reside on different computers
on a multivendor network.
The HP 700/RX Models 19Ca and 16Ca use a 22.7-MHz Intel i960,
feature interactive eight-plane color graphics and 4 Mbytes of user
memory and offer 76,000 Xstones of performance and an overall X11perf
rating of 0.85. The HP 700/RX Models 19Mi and 16Ci use a 20-MHz i960.
Model 19Mi includes 2 Mbytes of user memory and offers 60,000
xstones of performance. Model 16Ci includes 4 Mbytes of user memory
and offers 50,000 xstones of performance and an overall X11perf rating
of 0.75. User memory can be expanded to 18 Mbytes in all models.
Xstone and X11perf ratings provide a benchmark for measuring X
Window System server products. The Xstone rating is based on the
performance of a Sun Microsystems Sun 3/50 configured as an X Window
System server, which is assigned a performance level of 10,000
xstones. The X11perf rating is normalized to the performance of a
DECstation 3100, which is assigned a rating of 1.0.
To protect user investments in the HP 700/RX stations, HP
offers the industry's only upgrade path to a workstation. Customers
of HP's previous generation of X terminals, the HP 700/X family, also
can upgrade to the new 700/RX stations.
U.S. List Prices and Availability
HP 700/RX Model 19Ca Color X Station $5,995
o 19-inch 1280x1024 color monitor (72Hz)
o 4 Mbytes DRAM, 2 Mbytes VRAM
o 76,000 xstones in performance
HP 700/RX Model 16Ca Color X Station 5,195
o 16-inch 1024x768 color monitor (75Hz)
o 4 Mbytes DRAM, 1 Mbyte VRAM
o 76,000 xstones in performance
HP 700/RX Model 16Ci Color X Station 4,495
o 16-inch 1024x768 color monitor (75Hz)
o 4 Mbytes DRAM, 1 Mbyte VRAM
o 50,000 xstones in performance
HP 700/RX Model 19Mi Monochrome X station 2,995
o 19-inch 1280x1024 monochrome monitor (72Hz)
o 2 Mbytes DRAM, 0.24 Mbytes VRAM
o 60,000 xstones in performance
The HP 700/RX family of X stations is expected to be available
on May 1, with four to eight weeks delivery upon receipt of order.
For more information on the HP 700/RX family of X stations,
call 1-800-752-0900. In areas outside the U.S., call your local HP
sales office listed in your telephone directory.
Hewlett-Packard Company is an international manufacturer of
measurement and computation products and systems recognized for
excellence in quality and support. The company's products and
services are used in industry, business, engineering, science,
medicine and education in approximately 100 countries. HP has 91,000
employees and had revenue of $13.2 billion in its 1990 fiscal year.
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Barry Bishop "We do Windows Fastest!!"
Technical Marketing Mgr., Panacom Automation Div.,
Hewlett-Packard, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Email:bishop@waterloo.hp.com Phone: (519) 886-5320 FAX: (519) 886-8620