HP 9000/742i VME Workstation
| Quick Facts | |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 1992 |
| Period | Growth (II) |
| CPU | 1 PA-7100 50 MHz |
| Caches | 128 KB L1 |
| RAM | 64 MB |
| Design | ASP |
| Drives | none |
| Expansion | none |
| Bandwidth | ? |
| I/O | 10E SCSI 2 serial parallel |
Overview
The HP 9000/742i Sidewinder were VME-based PA-RISC single-board computers (SBCs) based on the HP 9000 715/50 workstation integrated onto a single board with fewer expansion possibilities. SCSI is routed through the VME-P2 connector at the back of the board. Since the board features a VME controller it is able to talk to other VME devices on the same bus and control them.
The HP 742rt version of these VME computers was designed for the HP-RT realtime operating system.
System
CPU
- PA-7100 50 MHz with 128 KB off-chip L1 cache
Chipset
- ASP chipset
- NCR 53C700 8-bit single-ended SCSI-2
- Intel 82596DX 10 Mbit Ethernet controller
- Viper memory and I/O controller
- Intel 82350 EISA bus adapter chipset (EISA to GSC)
- CRX graphics, 8-bit
- CS4215 CODEC for 16-bit stereo audio
- VME bus adapter
- Other I/O (serial, parallel, i8042)
Buses
- PBus processor/memory bus
- VSC main system bus
- GSC system-level I/O bus
- VME bus
- SCSI-2 narrow single-ended bus.
Memory
- 72-pin ECC SIMMs
- Takes 8-32 MB modules
- Two slots
- 16 MB (2×8) minimum, 64 MB (2×32) maximum
Expansion
- None
External
- SCSI-2 50-pin Fast-Narrow single-ended
- Two Serial RS232C DB9
- Parallel DB25
- DB15 Ethernet AUI 15-pin
Operating systems
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC95, int | SPEC95, fp |
|---|---|---|
| 742i/50 | 1.53 | 2.46 |
Dimensions
| Height | Width | Depth | Weight | Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40mm | 233mm | 160mm | 0.9kg | 35W @ 5V DC |
References
Manuals
- HP 9000 Model 742i Owner’s Guide (PDF, 0.5 MB, Hewlett Packard 1993)