[rescue] Linux on PA-RISC (was: hp visualize-s.. B's and C's)

Tue Oct 22 18:22:01 CDT 2002

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 06:22:05PM -0400, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Leslie Connally wrote:
> 
> > looking around, there are some good sites on Linux (esp Debian) on PA-RISC..
> > 
> > http://parisc-linux.org/
> > > http://hwdb.parisc-linux.org/
> > 
> > www.debian.org (PARISC "HPPA" is officially part of 3.0)
> > >esp: http://www.debian.org/ports/hppa/
> 
> Has anyone done this yet though?  What are your impressions?
> I have a nice 720 (725?) hanging around that I would really like to try
> this on...  Saw a demo at Linuxworld convention past - a 715(i
> think) running dual head using some sgi flat panel displays.  It was
> glorious, but that's before the debian port was *officially
> released*.  Haven't heard of anyone trying since..

I have done some reading and apparently, at least under HPUX 9.x, the
HP 735 et al. has very low context switch times, much lower than Sparc
SM-71 and others of that ilk.  Only Qnx and HP Real Time OS beat it.

That might account for the zippiness.  Also they supposedly have a
good memory subsystem.

Cordially
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