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HP Plots New Courses with HP-UX/Tru64

Posted by Hemos on from the what-a-muddled-course-we-weave dept.

Uberhacker.Com writes "HP has given up on trying to bring key parts of Compaq/DEC's Tru64 operating system into HP-UX. They had once planned for the Tru64 goodies to arrive this year and made a big deal of this quick turnaround when it first acquired Compaq. Ironically, HP also announced today that it is expanding its Alpha RetainTrust program for Tru64 UNIX customers." The linked article also notes that HP has decided that it will proceed forward with purchasing some of the technology from Veritas.

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  1. Hardly a shock. by ScriptMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trying to port the Tru64 clustering features into HP/UX was a bit like trying to fit a jet engine into a Yugo.

  2. Re:Open Source HP/UX and True64 - PLEASE by R.Caley · · Score: 5, Funny
    Opening HPUX would benefit us all, or make us go insane?

    From the process scheduling code:

    /*
    * Handle sleeping processes.
    */

    R_lyeh fhtagn(mglw_nafh Cthulhu, R_lyeh Ph_nglui)
    {
    assert (Cthulhu->mglw_nafh);
    assert (Cthulhu->fhtagn);
    assert (Cthulhu->R_lyeh->fhtagn);
    --
    _O_
    .|<     The named which can be named is not the true named
  3. Best HP Quote by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Funny
    Saw this in letters to The Register. Rather sums it up well.

    "It's a good thing that HP never acquired the rights to penicillin. If they had, mankind would have perished from widespread disease while HP tried to figure out how integrate it with anthrax."

    --
    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  4. Re:Aargh! This is really frustrating! by Carewolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess that's the problem. It is soo cool that it requires a really cool OS to work with, it has too much karma to even recognize HP-UX as an operating system.