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OpenPA.net, the independent PA-RISC and HP 9000 information resource for PA-RISC computers, architecture and operating systems, since 1999.
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First PA-RISC SMP - HP 9000 870 servers
HP 9000 870 Emerald were the first PA-RISC multiprocessor (SMP) system released by HP, in 1991. 870S were hosted in a large cabinet with up to four 50 MHz PCX for around half a million US dollars, positioned against IBM mainframe transaction computers. HP
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PA-RISC Fabrication from TTL to CMOS
HP designed all of its PA-RISC processors inhouse for two decades - and fabbed them as well for more than a decade. HP manufactured PA-RISC processors in its own facilities in Colorado, from the 1986 TS-1 in TTL to 64-bit PA-8200 in CMOS , 1997. Close to
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QEMU Emulator with more PA-RISC Support
Two new releases of QEMU , the RISC workstation emulator, brought new support for PA-RISC workstation and devices. QEMU 10.2 and 11.0 added support for HP 9000 715 workstations and many PA-RISC devices and 64-bit support. QEMU on PA-RISC now supports the
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HP SRX and VRX Graphics for PA-RISC
In the late-1980s, HP developed graphical accelerators for the fledging 3D design market as an outgrowth of MCAD solutions on Unix. With SRX and VRX graphics systems, external boxes that connected to the main PA-RISC workstation,...
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The History of PA-RISC Processors
PA-RISC processors were the HP design for the RISC era of business and technical computing between the 1980s and 2000s. PA-RISC was developed in three generations (PA-RISC 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0) in sold in four phases: Infancy , Growth , a href="https://www.op
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Operating systems and Unix software timeline
Different operating systems have been developed for PA-RISC computers since their inception in 1986, most of them Unix or Unix-like. Conceived as an Unix platform, PA-RISC supported many commercial, research and open source systems and was intensively dur
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HP 9000 800 Nova Business Class Servers
HP Nova servers were archetypical HP 9000 800 PA-RISC servers from the early 1990s, when HP 9000 workstations and servers had very divergent system designs. Nova F, G, H and I Class were business-oriented PA-RISC servers, designed by the HP Technical Serv
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Adobe Acrobat on HP-UX
Adobe ported its Acrobat PDF products to Unix quite early in the mid-1990s with multple Unix platforms supported by the Acrobat PDF creator. Support in Acrobat Reader for viewing PDFs was added later. Acrobat and Reader were available for HP-UX on PA-RISC
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