<div>Well, I din't have presence of mind to ask about OS. The purchasing agent just gave me a HP part number, and I had no idea what it even was until I did a bit of googling. So far I haven't been able to drill down to the actual system specs. All the documents I am finding on the HP site for this model are dated 2004, so I assume it is obsolete.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To my recollection, nobody even develops OSes for Itanium any more. I know M$ quit a year or two back and seems I recently saw something about Ubuntu or maybe it was RedHat ceasing development. If it is in fact an "Itanic" system, then HP is the only game in town, and I probably wouldn't be authorized to buy it, even if they still make them. We're a white box system builder and don't have any big brand authorizations (HP, IBM, etc.). However, if it is discontinued, maybe they would accept a used one, which I could probably buy from one of the system recyclers?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the input, Jeff.</div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I happen to have a Visualize B180L sitting here running Debian which has a port to PA-RISC. This one is a 32 bit machine. I’m thinking
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">HP’s used PA-RISC processors built by HP until a few years ago when you could get either PA-RISC or Itanium (at least in the HP 9000
servers). As you surmised this is actually workstation class machine and unfortunately I don’t know if they offered similar in that class though I’m guessing they did. (In server class they were using rp for PA-RISC and rx for Itanium so it may be the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">So the main question would be what OS and version do they want to run? HP-UX up through 11.11 (a/k/a 11iV1) only ran on PA-RISC.
11.22 ran on Itanium IIRC and 11.23 ran on PA-RISC (these were a/k/a 11iV2). 11.3x ran on either IIRC. However, HP discontinued manufacture of PA-RISC based systems at the end of 2009 so the only servers they build now for HP-UX are the Itanium ones.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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web site it is a HP UX box, that I am assuming is discontinued, but I haven't been able to drill down to the system specs to see if I could build an eq system for them. Can anybody with HP experience give me some pointers on where to look?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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