HP 3000 No More (legacy)

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sat Nov 17 17:18:31 2001

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>


>On November 17, Stan Sieler wrote:
>> PA-RISC is dead/dying ... HP has said so. IA-64 killed it.
>
> [knee-jerk reaction to a pet peeve follows]
>
> Well, as long as "dead" can be defined as "salespeople don't want to
>sell you a new one". For me, it can't. I can pick up the phone and
>buy PDP8 equipment from a commercial vendor. How long ago was THAT
>architecture discontinued?
>
> For me, something is "dead" (or "obsolete" or whatever you want to
>call it) when it can no longer do its job adequately and


Dead to me is broken. Obsolete is when it cant forfill the intesded task
or when it has reached a level of repair difficulty where replacement is
an option. For those CNC tools with PDP-8 or PDP11s running them
that number is still over $50,000 to upgrade and 100s of thousands of
dollars to replace. In the face of that the PDP-8 that still makes good
flanges is cheap at $2000 for a working cold spare.

For example I was given three working 386(mono) and 486(color) laptops
as too weak to be useful. Fully working machines with Xircom network
adaptors and all!

Allison
Received on Sat Nov 17 2001 - 17:18:31 GMT

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