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Originally Posted by
Ikon
Depends on what hardware you are running, v3 wont run on an old alpha.
Alpha?
Whatchu talkin bout Willis? HP-UX doesn't run on Alpha, never has. It runs on PA-RISC and Itanium.
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Originally Posted by
robertq
hello! i'm and HP fan, i know nothing about using HP-UX, UNIX or related, exept, that i have used MAC OS, i wanted to join the HP-UX world! could you help me, i don't even know which hardware to buy, or system requeriments. is the PA-RISC discontinued?
If you know nothing about unix, what makes you so interested in HP-UX?? Seems like Linux or FreeBSD would be a better starting place as that runs on commodity consumer pc hardware, plus it's *far* more user friendly for a beginner.
PA-RISC is indeed on its way out, Itanium is the new flavor of the day. That said, you can find some pretty nice PA-RISC machines for cheap. Like an rp4440 with dual 1Ghz processors and a couple gigs of ram. Mind you this is a noisy 4U rackmount server that weighs ~80 lbs or so. IIRC it requires 220v power too. Not something you'll want running in your living room. PA-RISC workstations do exist, although I can't comment on those. I work on large HP-UX servers for a living (rx7000, rx8000, and superdome) so to me it's not all that exciting, just another day at work.
The good news is that all HP-UX servers don't have any sort of video card, all your interaction with the machine is through a standard RS232 serial port. No fancy esoteric monitors or proprietary kbd / mouse required! Also the vast majority don't have a hardware raid controller. One less thing to fail IMO. You mirror the system disks using LVM.