[rescue] Old HP-UX Versions

[Andrew Gaylard]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
> HP-UX 10.20 doesn't support the PA-8700 CPU.

Are you sure?  I thought there were patches released near the end of the 10.20
support period that would enable it for this hardware,  for exactly
the reason you
mention -- many apps ran on 10.20, not 11.x.  The page at

http://www.openpa.net/systems/hp-visualize_j6000_j6700.html

suggests that they're only 11.x boxes; the J6000 was the last of the
10.20 boxes.

Though I never managed to figure out what could be so hard about "porting"
from 10.20 to 11.x.  The transition from 9.x to 10.20 *was* a big jump, however.
I suppose that for some apps, the cost of testing / validation easily outweighs
the cost of keeping old hardware and OS revisions going.

Andrew