rwessel (robertwessel@yahoo.com) on 11/20/10 wrote:
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>someone (someone@somewhere.com) on 11/19/10 wrote:
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>>BTW, if you really want a Tukwila workstation you can
>>order an HP rx2800i in the "office friendly" (reduced
>>acoustic) pedestal configuration instead of the usual
>>rack mount and attach a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
>>You have the choice of HP-UX, OpenVMS, or Windows.
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>Although Windows on IPF is darn close to dead now. The last versions of everything
>(except patches) that will support IPF have now shipped, and mainstream support
>for all of those will end in 2013. I can't imagine that there will be any meaningful
>sales to people who aren't supporting existing systems.
>

I am amused by the idea of an OpenVMS workstation, but aside from developing software for OpenVMS, I can't think of any practical use for one. What would you possibly do with an OpenVMS workstation? I quite certain the size of this market is statistically indistinguishable from zero.

A couple decades ago, there were plenty of workstation applications available for HP-UX. Are there any left today? Again, aside from developing HP-UX applications, what practical use is there for an HP-UX workstation?

FreeBSD, Debian Linux and Novell Linux also support IPF, though RedHat 6 drops IPF support. However, HP support RedHat 4 & 5, and Novel Linux on the rx2660 but not on the newer rx2800. Are there compatibility issues with the latest IPF hardware? Is Linux support for IPF whithering away?