'Retro' modelling hardware - what's happened

[Simon Hogg <s.hogg "-at-" ic.ac.uk>]

 Now, when everyone on the list seems to want to move to Linux on
 Intel/PPC/Alpha, or stick with SGI, I wonder what happened to Evans &
 Sutherland, and more interestingly, HP.
 Are they no longer any good?  Are they no longer value for money?  Or do
 they no longer support Computational Chemistry?
 Four years ago, I remember the department I was in as an undergraduate
 bought four HP workstations (don't know model number) to be used for QM
 calculations (probably Gaussian).  At the time, they were the 'bees knees'
 for number crunching.  How do people think they compare now (the bench
 marks on the web site seem to be 'selective'.
 Just out of interest ...
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