[Rescue] Any HP/Nextstep PA gurus about?

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:

>
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't think I'll ever bother with NS on PA since 4.2 doesn't run on
> > > PA.  The other thing is all the software I have only installs for
> > > Sparc, Intel, or NeXT hardware... no mention of pa-risc anywhere.
> >
> > As far as I have seen in the net, there was 4.2 for PA but not for
> > Sparc.
>
> Actually, that's exactly backwards; Andrew had it right.  NS3.3 was the
> end of the line for HPPA;  OpenStep never happened there. It's possible
> that PDO for HP-UX continued after the native NeXTSTEP/Mach port was
> canned, but I'm not sure.

OK, I see... for some reason I thought OpenStep or Mach had gone up to 4.2
in HP-PA, and that OpenStep had gone from mach to Solaris for the Sparc
stuff.

Oh, well. I guess 3.3 it is for my HP 9000 :-/.