And here we go, a true #Unix machine with two #PARISC CPU's, OS is HP UX and one the last #RISC workstation #HP released, while switching to Intels ultimate lemon Itanium, should have stayed with their own silicon. This will be fun to figure out.
Miod talks about HP/PA boot blocks https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251231080327 #openbsd #hppa #risc #bootblocks #porting #development #opensource #hp #portablecode
How far off the ground did Amiga Hombre get? I just stumbled upon the Wikipedia articles. I'd never heard of this before.
Update! The HP9000/712‘s Power Supply Unit had an error in the IC STR80154A that is responsible for doubling 115V to 230V. It was latched up in doubling mode, causing a short circuit.
👀 Now the machine is in "Graphics Error" mode (flashing power LED). Screen says out of range (not sure if true or it just doesn't like 75Hz). Does anyone know in which actual situations the LED flashing happens and when not?
#QEMU 10.0 #OpenSource #Linux #Virtualization Software Released, Here’s What’s New
This release promises to boost #x86, #ARM64, #RISCV, #HPPA, #s390x, and #LoongArch #emulation with new features and many improvements.
https://9to5linux.com/qemu-10-0-open-source-virtualization-software-released-heres-whats-new
Yesterday I got the AD385A 10 gigabit (10GBASE-SR4) NIC card in my HP Workstation C8000 working. The C8000 was HP's last Precision Architecture workstation, introduced in late 2003. Mine has two dual core 1 GHz PA8900 CPUs.
The AD385A has the short reach optical transceiver embedded, as it predates SFP+. My closest 10G switch port was copper, so rather than running fiber to the rack, I used a 10G media translator.
#HPPA #Workstation #retrocomputing
Still periodically amazed that the good people of #PariscLinux still work on that port, and even provide regular news updates on the wiki:
https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page#PA-RISC_NEWS
The #HP #Visualize B132L+, however, still has a functional #OpenBSD 5.5 :shibasmile:
Firing up the old #hppa #parisc machines this morning.
The Debian install I apparently did the last time on the #HP #Visualize B180L is broken (kernel panic at boot), guess I now have one more thing to do this winter :shibasmug: