Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!prcrs!paul
From: paul@prcrs.UUCP (Paul Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: osf NOT to be on series 800's ??
Keywords: osf hpux hp
Message-ID: <1243@prcrs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 90 14:47:46 GMT
References: <1166@kcdev.UUCP>
Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <1166@kcdev.UUCP>, gentry@genco.UUCP (Art Gentry) writes:
> Fairly reliable rumor heard at the recent ADUS conference in San Diago is,
> that HP will NOT port OSF to the 9000/800 series risc machines.  Anyone
> out there heard the same or maybe someone from HP could confirm/denie it?

Forgive my ignorance, but what's ADUS?  I've never heard of it before.

Anyway at the Boston Interex there was an OSF session.  The speaker was
from OSF and talked about OSF/1 (among other things).  Someone asked him
when HP would deliver an OSF/1 based OS.  He replied that he couldn't
speak for HP.  Some other person (wearing a blue badge) got up and said
that he could speak for HP.  He said that HP hopes to deliver OSF/1 in
the fall of 1991.

I don't know that I'd bet the rent on that date, but every discussion
of OSF/1 that I've heard has been about "when", not "if".

Paul Hite   PRC Realty Systems  McLean,Va   uunet!prcrs!paul    (703) 556-2243
        You can't tell which way the train went by studying its tracks.