gentry@genco.UUCP (Art Gentry) (10/09/90)
Fairly reliable rumor heard at the recent ADUS conference in San Diago is, that HP will NOT port OSF to the 9000/800 series risc machines. Anyone out there heard the same or maybe someone from HP could confirm/denie it? | R. Arthur Gentry Gentry and Associates Excelsior Springs, MO 64024 | | Email: gentry@genco.uucp ATTMail: attmail!kc4rtm!gentry | | The UNIX BBS: 816-221-0475 The Bedroom BBS: 816-637-4183 | | $include {std_disclaimer.h} "I will make a guess" - Spock - STIV |
wunder@orac.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) (10/09/90)
Fairly reliable rumor heard at the recent ADUS conference in San Diago is, that HP will NOT port OSF to the 9000/800 series risc machines. Anyone out there heard the same or maybe someone from HP could confirm/denie it? Well, I can't confirm or deny it, because I don't have the facts, but my opinion is ... that would be a very silly and unlikely move on our part. I do know that HP has given a grant to the Univ. of Utah to fund a port of Mach to the s800 (this is public knowledge). Mach on s800 is an obvious first step to OSF/1 on s800. Draw your own conclusions. wunder
fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge) (10/10/90)
> > Fairly reliable rumor heard at the recent ADUS conference in San Diago is, > that HP will NOT port OSF to the 9000/800 series risc machines. Anyone > out there heard the same or maybe someone from HP could confirm/denie it? > Reliable rumor mongering again? Were you aware that at the latest Usenix Mach workshop, HP (Bob Sears) presented a paper on porting Mach 2.5 to HP PA systems? Currently, that would be the series 800. regards, fletcher Fletcher E. Kittredge fkittred@bbn.com Senior Engineer Platforms and Tools Group BBN Software Products Company 10 Fawcett St. Cambridge, MA. 02138
paul@prcrs.UUCP (Paul Hite) (10/10/90)
In article <1166@kcdev.UUCP>, gentry@genco.UUCP (Art Gentry) writes: > Fairly reliable rumor heard at the recent ADUS conference in San Diago is, > that HP will NOT port OSF to the 9000/800 series risc machines. Anyone > out there heard the same or maybe someone from HP could confirm/denie it? Forgive my ignorance, but what's ADUS? I've never heard of it before. Anyway at the Boston Interex there was an OSF session. The speaker was from OSF and talked about OSF/1 (among other things). Someone asked him when HP would deliver an OSF/1 based OS. He replied that he couldn't speak for HP. Some other person (wearing a blue badge) got up and said that he could speak for HP. He said that HP hopes to deliver OSF/1 in the fall of 1991. I don't know that I'd bet the rent on that date, but every discussion of OSF/1 that I've heard has been about "when", not "if". Paul Hite PRC Realty Systems McLean,Va uunet!prcrs!paul (703) 556-2243 You can't tell which way the train went by studying its tracks.
gentry@kcdev.UUCP (Art Gentry) (10/11/90)
In article <1243@prcrs.UUCP> paul@prcrs.UUCP (Paul Hite) writes: >In article <1166@kcdev.UUCP>, gentry@genco.UUCP (Art Gentry) writes: >> Fairly reliable rumor heard at the recent ADUS conference in San Diago is, >> that HP will NOT port OSF to the 9000/800 series risc machines. Anyone >> out there heard the same or maybe someone from HP could confirm/denie it? > >Forgive my ignorance, but what's ADUS? I've never heard of it before. ADUS is the Appolo Domain USers group. They had their annual conference in San Diago last month. >Anyway at the Boston Interex there was an OSF session. The speaker was >from OSF and talked about OSF/1 (among other things). Someone asked him >when HP would deliver an OSF/1 based OS. He replied that he couldn't >speak for HP. Some other person (wearing a blue badge) got up and said >that he could speak for HP. He said that HP hopes to deliver OSF/1 in >the fall of 1991. > >I don't know that I'd bet the rent on that date, but every discussion >of OSF/1 that I've heard has been about "when", not "if". I got an email reply to the original post from a fellow that stated he had heard via *his* rumor mill, that HP is going to put OSF/2, not OSF/1 on the 800 series in late 1991. The date you heard and this guy did seem to confirm that SOMETHING is going to happen, but at this point, I'm not sure what that SOMETHING is going to be. Mayhaps someone "in the know" at HP would care to comment? Inquiring minds want to know! :-} -- | R. Arthur Gentry Gentry and Associates Excelsior Springs, MO 64024 | | Email: gentry@kcdev.uucp MA Bell Voice: 816-637-2443 | | The UNIX BBS: 816-221-0475 The Bedroom BBS: 816-637-4183 | | $include {std_disclaimer.h} "I will make a guess" - Spock - STIV |