[ale] HP Visualize J210XC Workstation

[Lightner, Jeff]

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.

I found this site that shows that Hitachi and other vendors sold PA-RISC based systems but don’t see any indication that HP ever sold ownership of the chip to Hitachi 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 Merced design in tandem with Intel was that it was simply cost prohibitive to continue designing and building specialty chips of their own.

http://www.openpa.net/news.html







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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:27 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] HP Visualize J210XC Workstation


Ebay and other used is the only option. Hitachi bought the pa-risk chip from hp around 2002 and HP stopped all new sales around 2005. HPUX was on life support by 2001.
J-class workstation is 64-bit and obsolete like moldy bread. Utility companies and some engineering uses.
Good luck!
On Jul 15, 2011 2:32 PM, "Greg Clifton" <gccfof5 at gmail.com<mailto:gccfof5 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Need some grey beard assistance. I just got a call from a government
> purchasing agent asking for a quote for one of these/or equivalent. From
> what I have found on HP 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Clifton
> CCSIservers.com






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