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From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: 9000/300 vs 9000/200 binaries, and using 9920 as an expansion box
Message-ID: <2868@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 00:58:19 GMT
Reply-To: aad@stepstone.com
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT
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We have a 9000/320, which reports upon booting that it has a 68020
processor.  "file" reports binaries to be "s200 executables", regardless of
whether they were compiled normally, or with the "-X" option that's supposed to
make an executable for a 9000/200.  Binaries compiled both ways are different
sizes, and report differences with "diff".

We have a need to provide 9000/200 versions of our products, but have no way of
assuring that our binaries will run there, or even of telling whether a given
binary "should" run on a 200.  I'd appreciate any suggestions about how to
feel more comfortable about our binaries.


Our 9000/320 had 6 meg of memory, and I discovered an unused 9920 laying around
with a bunch of 256k ram cards in it.  I was able to guess at switch settings
and stick two of these cards in the 320, where they seem to work fine, giving
us 6.5 meg.  Our docs say that a 9000/320 can take up to 7.5 meg of memory
(an awfully strange figure), and I'd like to use those 256k cards from the 9920
do up it as far as I can.  So is there any way I can use the 9920 box as an
expansion backplane?  The 320 consists of the cpu box plus one expansion box
about the same size as the cpu.  All slots are full now.

The 9920 cpu board seems to have a 68010 on it -- would this machine happen to
*be* something akin to a 9000/200?  Historical evidence shows that this machine
once ran HP-UX.


Comments, suggestions, or even guffaws welcom.


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