HP's not cool? (was Re: pdp-11/60 Semi-Rescue)

21 Nov 1999

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 I think anyone who has been hooked by HP gear would say the same thing.
 Even before anything with the HP logo on it could grab my undivided
 attention, I was always amazed at the kind of ingenuity and engineering
 brilliance that went into the physical design of the systems.  
 Yep... HP stuff _used_ to be very well engineered, both electronically 
 and mechanically. The 9100 is a total work of art, for example :-). I 
 love working on such machines.

 Just a pity that modern HP stuff is nowhere near as good, and that their 
 support at the moment is a total joke.

I have to at least partially disagree with you on this.  Their
consummer PCs may be of mixed quality, but their workstations are
still the best you can get.  We run a mixed shop with Sun, SGI, HP,
IBM workstations and some old DEC alphas.  The HPs are by far the
most reliable.  We have a high end SGI (a multi-pipe IR) that has
a hardware/software problem in it that remains unfixed even though
the problem was reported over a year ago.  This same problem exists
in several other similarly configured machines, so we aren't the
only ones complaining.  Last week we got a 3 pipe HP J5000.  Worked
right out of the box, completely as advertized.  We are one of the
first off-site groups with this configuration and its runs perfectly.

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HP's not cool? (was Re: pdp-11/60 Semi-Rescue)