Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpcc05!hp-ptp!steve From: steve@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve Witten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP Code Names Message-ID: <1320050@hp-ptp.HP.COM> Date: 28 Sep 90 21:30:37 GMT References: <14408@teda.UUCP> Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca. Lines: 209 Here's some that I know... Bridge A very early attempt at a next generation computer done at HP Labs...it was essentially a re-microprogrammed HP1000 E-series -- was rumored to have a lot of real exotic capability. Lightning HP1000 A600 processor (from a Mark Twain quote -- "Thunder gets all the credit but it's lightning that does all the work" -- or something like that) Phoenix HP1000 A700 processor (project kept being resurrected after cancellation so it "rose from ashes") Silver an HP1000 processor that never made it (I think it was a companion name to the version of RTE that was supposed to run on it called "Crystal" -- the new RTE was eventually cancelled as well in favor of "RTEsian") Magic HP1000 A900 processor Yellowstone HP1000 A400 processor Shoehorn The enclosure for a number of HP1000 A-series systems -- featured an integrated hard disc and 3.5" floppy Cooler The box for the HP1000 A400 (it uses a diagonal placement of the boards inside the box and has no fan) Rosebud HP's internal name for the standard that our physical packaging uses Millenium HP1000 A990 processor (just introduced) RTEsian RTE-A Amigo HP 300 (a big flop!) Chipmunk HP 9836A (first real workstation) Cookie Monster HP 4955A Line Protocol Analyzer Vision HP's CISC predecessor to PA-RISC that was eventually cancelled -- all the boxes had a "Vision Computer Family" number and also a code name. The only one I can remember is "Leopard" and I forget its VCF designation. HPE The new commercial OS for Vision (would later come into use as the codename for MPE-XL) Delphi | First stab at a relational data (was to be V introduced with Vision -- cancelled with Horizon Vision) | V Viking Spectrum PA-RISC ("scalable to a spectrum of price-performance") Focus The chip set that powered the HP9000s500 Dawn First HP9000s500 (used an operating system called "the SUN OS") Indigo HP 9000/3000 840/930 (the first Spectrum machine) Firefox HP 9000/3000 825/925 Silverfox HP 9000/3000 835/935 Cheetah HP 9000/3000 850/950 Panther HP 9000/3000 855/955(? -- it is the 9000/855 for sure) Comet | V Burgundy PA-RISC machine that never made it ("Burgundy II" did though.) BlackBird PA-RISC machine that never made it Bobcat HP 9000 s300 Topcat Catseye daVinci all bitmapped display hardware for HP9000s300-- Topcat used the floating point processor from the Focus chip-set to do the floating point math required by the hardware graphics pipeline Eagle HP 7937 disc drive Coyote HP 795x disc drives (Coyote II is the current series) Koala HP 3000 s30 Toothpick HP 3000 s33 Grizzly HP 3000 s44 Mighty Mouse HP 3000 s37 Quay NetDelivery/3000 Rasp Reliable Asynchronous Protocol Odie HP 3000 terminal driver for RASP Athena <- Bruno +--- Various MIT's of MPE III or IV (we like "Cheetah" Cheetah<- huh?) Ferrari MPE-XL Performance Architecture Rapid Transact/3000,Dictionary/3000,Report/3000 (all acquired from a company named "Rapid") Magic HP 150 Papillon HP 150 II Viceroy HP Vectra Nomad HP Portable Veejur HP Portable+ Pisces HP Integral PC Shanghai LaserJet II Foray LaserJet IIP Montage LaserJet 2000 SweetLips HP 7470A plotter (this was the first plotter using the gritwheel to grip the paper for one direction of motion -- HP patented the technology and it revolutionized plotters -- made them office equipment instead of instruments) Big Bertha HP 7580A plotter Behemoth Bertha HP 7585A plotter Squirt HP PaintJet Shark Read/write optical disc Jaws Auto-changer for "Shark" Linus Read/write streaming cartridge tape mechanism (used in lots of stuff) JukeBox Auto-changer for "Linus" SandBlaster An IC tester being developed by Santa Clara Division that got cancelled GoodWrench HP MaintenanceManagement/3000 (obvious!) Escher an internal PCB CAD system ChipBuster an internal VLSI cad system Zeus a massive 4GL/transaction processing system developed for internal use by the Corporate people who design our MIS systems -- this is HP3000sIII days...this system had a phenomenal amount of bells and whistles but was incredibly slow. Qantas HP Process Monitoring & Control/1000 (PMC/1000) Crayola HP Graphics Interface System/1000 (GIS/1000) Unicorn HP IMAGE/1000 II Robin HP Basic/1000C interpreter Athena HP Basic/1000C compiler Renoir HP Scanning Gallery Flatland HP VisiCalc/3000 (yes, and you can still buy it!) Martian HP Real-time Interface card for HP 9000s800 (actually this was an acronymn) Excalibur HP SoftBench (this product was preceded by a prototype environment that ran under X 10.4 that was done at HP Labs called "Ivo" -- pro- nounced "eee-voh" -- available inside HP only) From the lab I work in: ----------------------- Maverick HP Device Interface System ("Top Gun" was big at the time) Pegasus HP Real-Time Data Base Zootsuit HP Interactive Visual Interface (the one I work on -- it was the only word we could find with the letters "OO" for object-oriented and "UI" for "user-interface" in the same word) Sapphire HP Software Integration Sockets (they took a vote) Courtesy of (not necessarily in any order): Dan Kaplan, Frank Leong, John Frohlich, Daryl Gaumer, Kent Chao, Subhash Tandon, Michael Light, and myself =============================================================================== Steve Witten steve%hp-ptp@hplabs.HP.COM Precision Tools Program ...!hplabs!hp-ptp!steve Hewlett-Packard Co. steve@hp-ptp "...I'm no fool! Nosirree!..." -- J. Cricket