[ale] HP Visualize J210XC Workstation

[Jim Kinney]

I thought the announcement was 2005. My dates are fuzzy on this as I was
already running away from the pa-risk systems as fast as I could.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>wrote:

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>  Are you saying they stopped new sales of the J class in 2005?   They
> certainly did NOT stop sales of PA-RISC based systems in 2005.   They did
> that at the end of 2009.****
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> I found this site that shows that **Hitachi** and other vendors sold
> PA-RISC based systems but don’t see any indication that HP ever sold
> ownership of the chip to ****Hitachi**** or anyone else.  Given that HP
> was doing its best to replace PA-RISC with an Intel based design starting
> with announcement of Merced back in the early 90s and finally coming up with
> Itanium a decade later it doesn’t seem likely that anyone else would have
> wanted to own the PA-RISC chipset as they would have had to do what HP was
> trying to stop doing – design and build a chipset.   HP’s stated reason for
> announcing ****Merced**** design in tandem with Intel was that it was
> simply cost prohibitive to continue designing and building specialty chips
> of their own.****
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> http://www.openpa.net/news.html****
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim
> Kinney
> *Sent:* Friday, July 15, 2011 5:27 PM
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> *To:* **Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts**
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] HP Visualize J210XC Workstation
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> Ebay and other used is the only option. ****Hitachi**** bought the pa-risk
> chip from hp around 2002 and HP stopped all new sales around 2005. HPUX was
> on life support by 2001.
> J-class workstation is 64-bit and obsolete like moldy bread. Utility
> companies and some engineering uses.
> Good luck! ****
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>  On Jul 15, 2011 2:32 PM, "Greg Clifton" <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Need some grey beard assistance. I just got a call from a government
> > purchasing agent asking for a quote for one of these/or equivalent. From
> > what I have found on HP web site it is a HP UX box, that I am assuming is
> > discontinued, but I haven't been able to drill down to the system specs
> to
> > see if I could build an eq system for them. Can anybody with HP
> experience
> > give me some pointers on where to look?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Greg Clifton
> > CCSIservers.com****
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