[geeks] HP's squandering

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Jan 12 07:51:28 CST 2003


On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 11:31 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> It also occured to me that if you want to be really pedantic, HP is 
> squandering not 2 but 5 architectures... with at least 3 of current 
> commercial value.... all on Itanic II
>
> 1. PA-RISC
> 2. Alpha
> 3. NonStop (ex-Tandem) (MIPS)
>
> --------
>
> 4. VAX
> 5. HP-3000 (mpe)
>
> Whee...!

   Are they discontinuing the HP-3000?  Last I heard (which admittedly 
was a while ago) it was still going strong.

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire           "She's a cheek pincher.  I have scars."
St. Petersburg, FL                          -Gary Nichols


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