In a message dated 96-09-19 14:27:34 EDT, [log in to unmask]
(Therm-O-Link) writes:
 
<< According to the "Notes From the Field" column in Infoworld's 9/16 issue:
 
 "A sales rep for HP said the company will support NT on its "minicomputer
 boxes.""
 
 Are they talking "minicomputer" as in HP3000, or "minicomputer" as in
HP9000?
  >>
Perhaps the sales rep was refering to NT running on PA-RISC architecture
machines. However, August '95 in Toronto, Wim Rowlands from HP stated that NT
would NEVER run on PA-RISC.
 
As NT scales upward and takes on larger loads, a PA-RISC based processor
would be a great idea.  Already DEC Alpha boxes run NT at great speed.
 
Whilst the Intel-based servers (Pentiums and Pentium Pros) can be had in
multi-CPUs (up to eight way with 4.0, I believe), I still like a larger
single processor.  I have now installed 2 HP Net Servers in the last few
weeks and I am getting ready to install 3 more within the next month (The HP
Net Servers are now my prefered NT server platform).  I am planning the
deployment of a large client-server based system running on MS SQL Server 6.5
and as I scale the project, it would be nice to know that I could remain on
HP hardware for the server, even if I scaled up to a large NT server.
 
I might have in the past moaned about HP's decision not to port NT to
PA-RISC, I cannot remember for sure  :-).
 
BTW, Wim Rowlands left HP in early 1996.
 
Maybe that sales rep has heard certain things ?
 
One can only hope.
 
Kind regards,
 
Denys. . .