[buug] Re: HP-UX on x86
Michael Paoli
mp at rawbw.com
Wed Nov 9 07:30:01 PST 2005
P.S.
Ah, ... I haven't been following it quite closely enough, ...
Sufficiently recent versions of HP-UX also run on sufficiently
supported x86 hardware, e.g. HP-UX 11i v2 on Hewlett-Packard
Integrity series servers using Intel Itanium 2 processors.
Not something likely to be found inexpensively on eBay, though.
Of course those can run LINUX too (can we say "transition strategy"?).
references/excerpts:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12079_div/12079_div.HTML
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/integrity/index.html
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/5983-0162EN.pdf
http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2005-November/002781.html
Quoting Michael Paoli:
> HP-UX is by no means dead, but it's not exactly one of the fastest
> growing, or comparatively fastest growing areas, in the
> UNIX/LINUX/BSD/... realm.
>
> Short of needing to directly run HP-UX on your own hardware, or
> similarly for AIX and SPARC (but not x86) Solaris, you should be able
> to run pretty much any major relatively "surviving" distribution/flavor
> on some reasonable x86 hardware. E.g. that would cover:
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