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From: jacka@aspen.IAG.HP.COM (Jack C. Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP Code Names
Message-ID: <2130008@aspen.IAG.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 00:45:10 GMT
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Organization: Information Architecture Group, HP
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Steve Witten has compiled a wonderful list, but I'll bet he's
too young to know about these additions:

>	HPE		The new commercial OS for Vision (would later
>			come into use as the codename for MPE-XL)
True, but did you know that the predecessor to MPE was:
	POS		Primary Operating System


>	Koala		HP 3000 s30
>	Toothpick	HP 3000 s33
>	Grizzly		HP 3000 s44
>	Mighty Mouse	HP 3000 s37
All true, and all descended from:
	Omega		The first HP3000, which was begat by:
	Alpha		A 32-bit, 4MB hardware stack (CISC) machine
			that was cancelled, had it's word length cut
			in two (and it's address space decimated!).

I worked on the Alpha, and when it was 're-directed' to being a 16 bitter,
we were so ticked, we decided to bump it's name from the first - to the
last.  Which almost became a self-fulfilling prophesy, if you know the
rest of that bit of history.  We're talking 1969 here, kids.
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

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Steve Witten                    steve%hp-ptp@hplabs.HP.COM
Precision Tools Program		...!hplabs!hp-ptp!steve
Hewlett-Packard Co.             steve@hp-ptp

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