A bit tangential to the subject:  Has anyone been successful in
running MPE PA-RISC binaries (without intrinsic calls, etc.) using
HP's Aries emulation on HP-UX?  If so, anyone tried using Aries on
RHEL's Itanium2 version?

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Gilles Schipper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> You may be well be right - that the 2660 would be a good choice to replace
> the 937.
>
> But I believe the original question was more along the lines of what HP-UX
> server is similar to the MPE 937.
>
> And the correct answer to that would NOT include the 2660 - if for no other
> reason than the 937 and 2660 are based on entirely different CPU
> architectures.
>
> The MPE 937 - like the HP-UX F-class, G-class, H-class, and I-class (as well
> as the E-class and D-class and K-class and N-class and L-class) are all
> based on the PA-RISC CPU architecture.
>
> On the other hand, the rx2660 is based on the Intel/HP CPU architecture
> known as Itanium - which is NOT equivalent to PA-RISC.
>
> Unlike PA-RISC, Itanium offers multi-core capability, among many other more
> advanced features. In general, they are significantly faster than the
> PA-RISC CPU while consuming less power and smaller in size.
>
> You won't hear the term Itanium much from HP these days.
>
> It seems to have been replaced with Integrity - from my understanding.

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