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HP To Kill 3000 System After 30 years
James Ots writes "HP have announced that their 30 year old HP3000 series of computers will be joining their calculators on the scrapheap. Which is a shame, because a lot of work has gone into porting unix tools to the platform, and now we'll have to stop and port MPE (the HP3000 OS) tools to unix. Cnet have pre-announced the announcement, and the guys on comp.sys.hp.mpe don't seem too happy. (See also CSL's page on the story)"
Unix is 30 years old!
Time to replace it with Windows XP!
On top of evrything else now my company has to figure out how to migrate over 100 3000 systems, with over a terabyte of data and several million lines of code to a new platform.
lots and lots of tapes, and the mother of all perl scripts.
From the article:
In 1972 and 1973, the early versions [...] were temporarily withdrawn from the market because of flaws [...]
Well, that surely goes in the book of records: it took them 28 years until they decided to make the "temporary" "permanent".
What is it with titles those days. Everyone one is trying to have catchy once but sometimes they go over board. So lets examine this one: "HP To Kill 3000 System After 30 years" at first glance, this suggests that:
1) HP is about to commit a horrible crime: "kill"
2) There are exactly 3000 unites to be killed: "3000 System"
3) HP will do it 30 years from now: "After 30 years"
Karma stuck at 50? Add 2-5 inches.. err.. 2-5x Karmas Count to your pen1es.. err.. Karma all naturally and private
Actually, HP-UX first appeared in 1982 or so on the HP9000 platform (series 500, Focus chipset, 32-bit CISC machine customed-designed by HP). A different version appeared on the 9000 series 200, 68000-based workstation (later replaced by the series 300). HP-UX 1.0 refers the first version on HP-PA (now called PA-RISC).
And, of course, there's the old joke: "If Hewlett-Packard had been named Packard-Hewlett, what would they have called HP-UX?"
The profits of doom?
Damn, buying evil geniuses in a nutshell has finally paid off!
I hate those things, let them die a slow painful death at the bottom of the Atlantic. Use them to dredge a new shipping channel. Teach explosives training to new recruits in the Army with them. Use them as obstacles in automotive crash tests. But whatever you do make sure that some back-assed takes forever to upgrade corporation (like the one I work for) cant find them to use them.
It turned 30 and it's crystal turned red.
Time for Carousel.
And, fwiw, I like HP/UX ... I get a lot fewer calls than the NT guys get ;)
:-)
You work in sales?