Hewlett-Packard Co computer chief Wim Roelandts says that by 1995 the company should have a multiprocessor Precision Architecture RISC system delivering 1,000 MIPS or more. The company is also going to mandate 50 MIPS as the performance floor of its HP9000 Series 700 workstations and not produce anything less. That machine will be selling below $5,000 in a year or two, he added. And besides the reputed 110 MIPS Bushmaster or Bushwhacker Snake that you’ve heard about, Hewlett-Packard apparantly has a 100MHz superscaler RISC chip up in the lab.
