#hppa

Keldrim :verified_paw:Keldrim@meow.social
2026-03-04

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.

#hppa #PA_RISC #HPUX

A photo an an old school HP c8000 Unix workstation the design with its unique feet still looks very futuristic even today.
2025-08-24

How far off the ground did Amiga Hombre get? I just stumbled upon the Wikipedia articles. I'd never heard of this before.

#amiga #hppa #retrocomputing #commodore

2025-08-03

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?

#hp9000 #parisc #hppa

2025-08-02

Finally HP 9000 owner 😎 It’s the model 712 #pizzabox. Lets see if I can make this baby shine again! #parisc #hppa #hp9000 #risc #unix

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io
2025-04-23

#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.
9to5linux.com/qemu-10-0-open-s

🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑brouhaha
2024-09-03

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.

2022-11-30

Still periodically amazed that the good people of #PariscLinux still work on that port, and even provide regular news updates on the wiki:

parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.p

#parisc #hppa #retrocomputing

2022-11-30

The #HP #Visualize B132L+, however, still has a functional #OpenBSD 5.5 :shibasmile:

#hppa #parisc #retrocomputing

A serial console showing a login on OpenBSD, and the following text :

OpenBsD/hppa (basilic) (console: JUTIERT Password: Last login: Sun Jan 25 12:67:23 on console OpenBSD 5.5 (GENERIC) #160: Tue Mar 4 15:01:17 MST 2014 Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system Please use the sendbug(1) utility to report bugs in the system Before reporting a bug, please try to reproduce it with the latest O R L L R D e R R L Rt enough information to reproduce the problem is enclosed, and if a known fix for it exists, include that as well L S sudo dmesg [ using 402244 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. ALl rights reserved Copyright (c) 1995-2014 OpenBSD. ALL rights reserved. http://wuw.Open8SsD.org OpenBSD 5.5 (GENERIC) #160: Tue Mar 4 15:01:17 MST 2014 deraadtahppa.openbsd.org: /usr/src/sys/arch/hppa/compile/GENERIC HP 9000/778/B132L+ (Merlin L2+ 132) PA-RISC 1.le real mem = 134217728 (128MB) Isvd mem = 524288 (512KB) avail mem = 123674624 (117MB) mainbuse at root [flex fff8000e] Rt powere at mainbuse offset 140060 pue at mainbus® offset ffbe0@® irg 31: PCXL2 L1-A 132MHz, FPU VR rev 1 cpud: 64K(32b/1) Icache, 64K(32b/1) wr-back Dcache, 96 coherent TLB meme at mainbuse offset [...]
2022-11-30

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:

#retrocomputing

A serial console displaying the boot menu:

Firmware Version 6.0
 Duplex Console I0 Dependent Code (I0DC) revision 1 Memory Test/Initialization Completed (c) Copyright 1995-1998, Hewlett-Packard Company, ALl rights reserved Processor  Speed B Coprocessor state Cache Size B FEO TPt ST Py Available memory (bytes)  : 134217728 Good memory required (bytes): 134217728 Primary boot path:  FWSCSI.6.0 Alternate boot path: SESCSI.6.0 Console path: GRAPHICS (6) (BRI ps2 [ WARNING: Self tests have been disabled as a result of FASTBOOT being enabled. To enable self tests, use the FASTBOOT command in the CONFIGURATION menu and reboot the system. Processor is booting from first available device. To discontinue, press any key within 10 seconds

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