Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wuarchive!udel!haven!ni.umd.edu!MIKE@UC780.UMD.EDU From: mike@UC780.UMD.EDU (Mike Santangelo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP 3000 Series 37 Message-ID: <1991Mar4.192606.9677@ni.umd.edu> Date: 4 Mar 91 19:26:06 GMT References: <526@lysator.liu.se> Sender: usenet@ni.umd.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: mike@UC780.UMD.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: The University of Maryland, University College Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: uc780.umd.edu In article <526@lysator.liu.se>, pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes: >We just got a HP3000 Series 37 with a 400MB disk and a tape drive. >With it we got the MPE V/E operating system, without any compilers, >interpreters or whatsoever... > >Any suggestions what we should do with it? Are there C compilers >available for it? Would it be possible to port Minix to it? How >powerful is it? > > > >-- >Peter Eriksson pen@lysator.liu.se >Lysator Computer Club ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen >University of Linkoping, Sweden "Seize the day!" Peter, The HP3000 Series 37 was HP's answer originally to DEC's MicroVAX II. It is somewhat more powerful in terms of transaction throughput, but that is it. It is meant to be a departmental commerical transaction server based system, typical user load in the 8-16 category (depending on how much memory you have in it). It is NOT a number cruncher. This is one of the original architecture HP3000's, e.g. CISC based stack oriented, 16 bit, segmented memory model systems. It will ONLY and FOREVER run MPE. There is a 3rd party C compiler for MPE, I think from the same company who makes a product called 'SPLash!' for RISC based HP3000 systems. If you want to do database work, using its built in network-model (but a very GOOD network model) database system than you have something. Same goes for doing COBOL development. Still want it? +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Michael F. Santangelo + Inet: mike@uc780.umd.edu VMS / UNIX Systems + mike@socrates.umd.edu Academic Computing UMUC + Bnet: MIKE@UC780 (The University of Maryland, + MIKE@UMUC (not visited often) University College) +