HP Plots New Courses with HP-UX/Tru64

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.

Comments

Hardly a shock.

[ScriptMonkey]

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

Re:Maybe if they would bring back VMS,,,

[johnalex]

"Bring back?" We just installed a new HP Alpha DS 25: 2 1 GH processors, 2 GB RAM, a ton of hard drive space, OpenVMS 7.3.2. It's replacing a DEC (yes, a Digital) Alpha 2100. Wow, it's sweet. I just tried a job that once took all night on the old machine run in less than 15 minutes on the new one. Our month-end processing that once took 4 hours can run in around 40 minutes.

OpenVMS is still around, it's still running, and it's better than ever. I suppose the question is what will happen when the Alphas die.

Re:Open Source HP/UX and True64 - PLEASE

[R.Caley]

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);