The Itanic Has Sunk

Re:The Itanic Has Sunk by acomjean on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:07PM (#28009463)

> Intel and HP looked around and saw a wide variety of successful server CPU architectures like Alpha, MIPS, SPARC, and POWER.

I used a PA-RIRC/Alpha and Power machines in various work roles. All those architectures/OS fell to X86 speed improvements/low prices. All those other architectures couldn't compete as intel X86 got faster and faster and caught up with exotic silicon.

When MS released windows NT for x86 it was over. My Mom's former employer (PTC) released for windows NT a little late and lost ground to SolidWorks. Even Apple gave up using power an switched to x86.

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Re:The Itanic Has Sunk by chasil on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:17PM (#28009558)

We plan to get rid of this real soon now.

    # uname -a
    HP-UX antique B.10.20 A 9000/800 862741461 two-user license

    # model
    9000/800/K380

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Re:The Itanic Has Sunk by cbmuser on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:58AM (#28015993)

Please offer this machine to the debian-hppa port, post a message here:

> https://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/

It might be worth to be hosted at the Open-Source Lab at Oregon State University where we just lost one Debian machine IIRC.

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Re:The Itanic Has Sunk by chasil on Saturday July 31, 2021 @08:40AM (#28017580)

Unfortunately, this is being used for a corporate tracking application.

I have several of them, bit they run on 220v power and are the size of a small refrigerator.

The CPUs range up to 220MHz.

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Re:The Itanic Has Sunk by olympusultra on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:27PM (#28079274)

Are they in Europe?

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