Their current 16700 series LA mainframes (I have one) still run HPUX 10.20
on a PA-RISC CPU with all of the network capabilities of HPUX. I think some
things are disabled by default, but you can boot single user mode and
reconfigure things if you really want to.
I agree that I wouldn't want Windows 9x running on an instrument like this,
but Windows 2000 might not be too bad, as Tek runs on some of their current
LA mainframes.
>From: "Eric Smith" <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
>Reply-To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
>To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
>Subject: Re: The Ne[w|utered] HP (was: RE: The effects of employment)
>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:31:25 -0800 (PST)
>
>My biggest gripe with Agilent is that their recent instruments such
>as the Infinium series oscilliscopes run Windows. I don't use the
>things myself, but I've heard horror stories from friends using them.
>It's a shame that they didn't use Linux, or xBSD. Some of their
>earlier instruments such as logic analyzers actually acted as NFS
>and X clients, but the networking capabilities of Windows are a huge
>step backwards.
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Received on Fri Dec 13 2002 - 13:34:00 GMT