1 Aug
2014
1 Aug
'14
11:56 a.m.
Never heard about that one. I did get in on the Tru64 hobbyist program many
years ago ;) It actually ran OK on my DECpc AXP 150, just wish I would have
had a 24-bit graphics board for it. Hard to stay focused when I had an R4k
Elan Indigo sitting next to it...
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:50 AM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 1, 2014, at 1:23 AM, Zane Healy <healyzh at
aracnet.com> wrote:
On Jul 31, 2014, at 9:40 PM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
> Now about the only thing are the twitching corpses of HPUX and Tandem.
I'll read the article / tea leaves (which have not yet done) to see if
there is any impact on this defection. Really the only thing out there now
is HPUX.
Isn't HP-UX basically dead, in favor of Linux? A long time ago, in a
Galaxy
far, far away, I was a SysAdmin for several HP-UX systems, I don't
miss it. Apparently HP has ported the Tandem OS to Intel 64. I'm not sure
what Bull's plans are with GCOS, I was surprised when they ported GCOS-8 to
Itanium (and I worked on a GCOS-8 system).
Not totally dead; it actually has a lot of virtualization features
and platform management for HP platforms that Linux does not have;
in a number of cases, they've kept that more up to date than they
have for VMS.
I don't think they're doing anything new and exciting with it,
though; just maintaining it for the customers for whom they've
promised support. There was a nascent pseudo-hobbyist program for
it a long time back, but I understand it's been axed for a while.
- Dave