13 Dec
2002
13 Dec
'02
8:34 a.m.
Their current 16700 series LA mainframes (I have one) still run HPUX 10.20
on a PA-RISC CPU with all of the network capabilities of HPUX. I think some
things are disabled by default, but you can boot single user mode and
reconfigure things if you really want to.
I agree that I wouldn't want Windows 9x running on an instrument like this,
but Windows 2000 might not be too bad, as Tek runs on some of their current
LA mainframes.
From: "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: The Ne[w|utered] HP (was: RE: The effects of employment)
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:31:25 -0800 (PST)
My biggest gripe with Agilent is that their recent instruments such
as the Infinium series oscilliscopes run Windows. I don't use the
things myself, but I've heard horror stories from friends using them.
It's a shame that they didn't use Linux, or xBSD. Some of their
earlier instruments such as logic analyzers actually acted as NFS
and X clients, but the networking capabilities of Windows are a huge
step backwards.
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