I thought the announcement was 2005. My dates are fuzzy on this as I was already running away from the pa-risk systems as fast as I could.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:34 AM, 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 color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Are you saying they stopped new sales of the J class in 2005? They certainly did NOT stop sales of PA-RISC based systems in 2005.
They did that at the end of 2009.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I found this site that shows that
<u></u>Hitachi<u></u> and other vendors sold PA-RISC based systems but don’t see any indication that HP ever sold ownership of the chip to
<u></u><u></u>Hitachi<u></u><u></u> or anyone else. Given that HP was doing its best to replace PA-RISC with an Intel based design starting with announcement of Merced back in the early 90s and finally coming up with Itanium
a decade later it doesn’t seem likely that anyone else would have wanted to own the PA-RISC chipset as they would have had to do what HP was trying to stop doing – design and build a chipset. HP’s stated reason for announcing
<u></u><u></u>Merced<u></u><u></u> design in tandem with Intel was that it was simply cost prohibitive to continue designing and building specialty chips of their own.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 15, 2011 5:27 PM</span></font></p><div class="im"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <u></u>Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<u></u><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] HP Visualize J210XC Workstation</font></div><u></u><u></u><p></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ebay and other used is the only option.
<u></u><u></u>Hitachi<u></u><u></u> bought the pa-risk chip from hp around 2002 and HP stopped all new sales around 2005. HPUX was on life support by 2001.
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J-class workstation is 64-bit and obsolete like moldy bread. Utility companies and some engineering uses.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Jul 15, 2011 2:32 PM, "Greg Clifton" <<a href="mailto:gccfof5@gmail.com" target="_blank">gccfof5@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
> Need some grey beard assistance. I just got a call from a government<br>
> purchasing agent asking for a quote for one of these/or equivalent. From<br>
> what I have found on HP web site it is a HP UX box, that I am assuming is<br>
> discontinued, but I haven't been able to drill down to the system specs to<br>
> see if I could build an eq system for them. Can anybody with HP experience<br>
> give me some pointers on where to look?<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
> Greg Clifton<br>
> CCSIservers.com<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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