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HP 9000/745i, 747i VME Workstations

Quick Facts
Introduced 1992
Period Growth (II)
CPU 1 PA-7100
50-100 MHz
Caches 128-512 KB L1
RAM 128 MB (/50)
256 MB (/100)
Design ASP
Drives 2 SCSI
1 FD/SCSI
Expansion 4 EISA (745i)
747i:
2 EISA
1 SGC
6 VME
Bandwidth ?
I/O 10E
SCSI
2 serial
parallel
VGA
HIL
HP-IB
audio

The HP 9000/745i and 747i were VME PA-RISC workstations from HP, released in 1992 for industrial control and medical use. They are technically close to the HP 9000 715 and 725 workstations but integrated into (19") rack-mountable cases. They run standard PA-RISC Unix operating systems.

The CPU and I/O controllers are an integrated VME single board computer (SBC) like the 742i VME board, identical in both 745i and 747i. The 747i are built into a bigger case with several VME expansions slots for devices, the 745i has none.

Both 745i and 747i have a HP-IB interface used for controlling, measurements and instrumentation devices. These machines have two pairs of LED banks, one at the front and the other directly on the CPU board on the back.

Model Introduced Price
745i/50 1992 $13,390
745i/100 1992
747i/50 1992 $15,990
747i/100 1992

Six years after the 745i, HP released the similar 745/132L and 745/165L VME workstations with new technology and PA-7300LC processors.

System architecture

Processors

Model CPU Speed L1 Cache
745i/50 PA-7100 50 MHz 128 KB off-chip
747i/50 PA-7100 50 MHz 128 KB off-chip
745i/100 PA-7100 100 MHz 512 KB off-chip
747i/100 PA-7100 100 MHz 512 KB off-chip

Chipset

System buses

Memory

Expansion slots

Storage

External ports

Operating systems

Benchmarks

Model SPEC92, int SPEC92, fp SPEC95, int SPEC95, fp
/50 36 72 1.53 2.46
/100 81 138 3.22 4.06

Dimensions

Model Height Width Depth Weight Power
745i 175mm 425mm 412mm 18.6kg 350W
747i 310mm 425mm 412mm 29kg 700W

References

Manuals

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