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From: dusan@physik.uni-bielefeld.dbp.de (Dusan)
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: RE:Information on HP 720 RISC workstation
Message-ID: <9104031049.AA20890@genbank.bio.net>
Date: 3 Apr 91 11:47:04 GMT
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Hi,

although I can't tell anything concerning the HP 720 RISC station, I do
have some expirience with HP-UX. We are using an HP9000/360 running OS 6.5.

Almost any software written for the Unix environment needs to be rewritten, if
you want it to run under HP-UX. Take a look at the HP-UX include files - they
are heavilly modified. If you want easy implementations of molbio software
I recommend to stick closer to the SUN family... A great number of Unix
software for the molecular biologist is developed on SUN workstations.

Maybe the next HP-UX releases will be more compatible, but currently I do not
like HP-UX at all...


sincerely,

Dusan Zivadinovic
University of Bielefeld
Department of Genetics
4800 Bielefeld
Germany

email: Dusan@physik.uni-bielefeld.dbp.de