[Simh] HP/UX

[Clem Cole]

Be careful - you have define "which flavor."

HP/UX ran on original 9000 (which was the "focus" chip set for a 3000).
Then the 68000K machines and >>some<< of the shared DNxxxxx systems that
were rebranded.  I don't think it ever got moved the custom processor
Apollo developed and completed after the HP buy-out.   (You'd need to ask
someone like Eric Hamilton or John Sontag).

When "Spectrum" - aka PA/RISC was developed, HP/UX was moved that were I
suspect the system you remember ran.  This was finally replaced by an
Itanium system that Intel still makes for HP under contract (and the source
of one of the Oracle/HP legal entanglements).     This is the system the
OpenVMS run on today.   Although I believe HP (HPE) has moved (is moving)
the HP/UX Itanium customers to Linux/Itanium as many of the HP/UX
"features" are able to be supported/emulated in modern Linux.

Also be careful about HP being "generous" with the old DEC technology, such
as OpenVMS.    That was started before HP became the owners.  Fortunately,
HP (and I assume now HPE) has continued it.   We can only hope the desire
is not lost, but the farther we go away from the source of those decisions,
the less ability to get them continued - although hard for them to "take
away" as so many hobbyist licenses are in the wild.



On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This would have been PA/RISC I believe.
>
> On Oct 9, 2016 10:46 PM, "Henry Bent" <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think you're referring to PA-RISC machines, and as far as I know no
>> emulator exists for those, but a while back I noticed that MAME/MESS has at
>> least preliminary support for some of the HP9000/3xx machines (68k).  No
>> idea if they've progressed far enough to be able to boot HPUX.
>>
>> -Henry
>>
>> On 9 October 2016 at 20:18, Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> After writing one of my previous emails, the nostalgia bug bit me.  With
>>> HP'S generosity with OpenVMS and the ingenuity of the fine folks at simH,
>>> does anyone think that there will ever be a simulator for HP/UX hardware?
>>> It was the first Unix I ever used back in the 90s when I was a mainframe
>>> operator on the midnight shift and I would love to get my hands dirty with
>>> it which I couldn't do back then.  I still remember the first time I typed
>>> "su" and all the power it gave me...but I digress.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ray
>>>
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