[Simh] HP/UX

[Ray Jewhurst]

I am sure that it was a PA/RISC because it was installed when I worked
there and that was 1995.

On Oct 10, 2016 10:43 AM, "Clem Cole" <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> 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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