devil@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL (Gil Tene) (05/05/91)
Hello HPeople, I am interested in knowing whether RMB (I think it's called "Rocky Mountain Basic") runs on the news HP snakes. Does anyone out there know? Anyone from HP maybe? I need to know this in order to help in selection between a 700 and a 385 or 433... AdvThanks, -- Gil. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Gil Tene "Some days it just doesn't pay -- -- devil@techunix.technion.ac.il to go to sleep in the morning." -- --------------------------------------------------------------------
fmonaldo@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU (Monaldo Francis M. S1R x8648) (05/06/91)
devil@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL (Gil Tene) writes: >Hello HPeople, >I am interested in knowing whether RMB (I think it's called >"Rocky Mountain Basic") runs on the news HP snakes. Does >anyone out there know? Anyone from HP maybe? >I need to know this in order to help in selection between >a 700 and a 385 or 433... >AdvThanks, >-- Gil. >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >-- Gil Tene "Some days it just doesn't pay -- >-- devil@techunix.technion.ac.il to go to sleep in the morning." -- >-------------------------------------------------------------------- After converstaions with my HP rep, these are my heresay impressions of RMB's future: In the past RMB has been intimately linked with (indeed has been) the operating system. This makes it difficult to port. My understanding, (correct me HP people if I am wrong) is that HP will have two versions of RMB. One, for a BASIC workstation. The second will be an radically restructed version that will be pure X-window application, that can be ported to a variety of computers. This will be more than RMB/UX. It will not be tied to the 680x0 processors. My rep also told me the HP is working on a port of this seond version of RMB for the Snakes. I would welcome less heresay comments for HP people who may have greater insight. I just saw an ad for an RMB to C conversion porgram. It would be nice to write software in the comfortable RMB environment ane perform a conversion to get the inherent speed of C. What about it HP? Frank Monaldo fmonaldo@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
sjo@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Onofrio) (05/09/91)
Here is the current thought...
The unofficial word is that S/700 will not support RMB/WS on the S/700,
but it will support RMB/UX and C programming language. This will include
at least access to the EISA HPIB card.
I will refer you to the your HP Sales Rep in Tel-Aviv for more information.
Scott Onofrio (sjo@hplvec.lvld.hp.com)sjo@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Onofrio) (05/10/91)
HP has indicated that the HP BASIC/UX product (which is an application running on HP-UX) is supported today on the Series 300 and Series 400 products and will be supported on the Series 700 workstation platforms in the future. This is a future product which has not yet been formally announced, hence details are not yet available. HP has sent a series of messages and future product strategy statements to our sales personel regarding this matter. Although, the entire hardware platform issue (series 300/400/700/800 and PC) has been somewhat confused within T&M, we are striving to clarify all platform related issues. Simply stating the HP 9000 Series 300 products will continue to best meet the majority of the needs within T&M. You should consult your HP T&M sales representitive regarding this matter. Sincerely, Leonard M. Gilmore Hewlett Packard - Product Marketing
wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) (05/13/91)
In article <9959@discus.technion.ac.il> devil@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL (Gil Tene) writes: > > I am interested in knowing whether RMB (I think it's called > "Rocky Mountain Basic") runs on the news HP snakes. Does > anyone out there know? Anyone from HP maybe? to the best of my knowledge, no, neither rmb/ws nor rmb/ux will run on the 700's or 800's. although i dont have any inside info, my guess is that the workstation version of rmb will _never_ run on anything other than series 200's and 300's. the rmb under unix will probably not run on anything other than the 300's and 400's for a _long_ time. too many of the internal structures of rmb have embedded 68000 instructions in them to make the porting easy. if you find out otherwise, please let me know. i would be interested in it also. -wayne