[rescue] Convex supercomputer

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Thomas Gallaway wrote:

>
> I just fell over this auction:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
> ViewItem&category=1479&item=3056149673
>
> After googling around a bit it turns out to be a pa-risc box. I could
> rescue it as it is
> close to me but I have no place to put it. Also it is missing it's
> drives. I wonder what
> OS it runs. Maybe somebody else wants to rescue this?

It runs SPP-UX which theoretically is binary compatible with HP-UX, this
is bad news as that OS is pretty much unobtanium. It is a very very early
SPP machine, and it runs PA-RISC 7100 processors, I think that frame is
limited to a max of 8 processors, but the -2 seems to indicate it is a
dual 7100 machine.