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Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

Last update for couple of days, checked the software and we seem to be missing most packages. I have now downloaded the most recent software release so let's see if we can upgrade.

Problem with upgrading is, you need a SCSI CD-Rom drive

#cdrom #scsi #software #hpux

Image created, no lost or bad blocks, we have an image we can always recover now

#ddrescue #hpux #scsi

“The mass extinction of UNIX workstations – OSnews”

https://www.osnews.com/story/135605/the-mass-extinction-of-unix-workstations/

#unix #workstation #retrocomputing #hpux #legacysoftware

As a kid i dreamed of ALL THE tech and what could be. New stuff always excited me but these days it's just dire, the only thing in recent years that brought back some joy was #VR and #RISC_V but everything else coming out, I just wonder how big tech will use it to fuck us up even more...

And as kid I would have also never dreamed that things like a 21 years old #HPUX #Unix workstation would help me stay sane and fill me with true wonder instead.

#RISCV #HPPA #PARISC

I'm getting pretty close to finishing my first video on the ubiquity of win16 APIs in 90s computing.

The main bit of research that I'm having a little trouble with is the exact pricing for the SDKs for #solaris, #aix, and #hpux from the mid 90s

Does anyone have a link, or receipts, of purchases, catalogues, etc of things like that?

#retrocomputing #unix

Finally got a memory upgrade for my #hp #b2000 #hpux machine. I'll be rocking 2 whole gigabibbles.

Is HP shipping out memory modules or dinner plates?!

#retrocomputing

If you've been following my latest #unix shenanigans you might have noticed that I've talked about #solaris, #aix, and #hpux but what about #irix ?!

Well today it is #sgi day. Irix is the only proprietary Unix I've ever actually used day to day, I'm wondering how familiar it'll be once installed.

#retrocomputing

I don't want special files for pseudo driver "sad" #hpux I'm good.

😢

#retrocomputing

Turns out that #aix is also laffer utilities compatible!

Unlike #solaris and #hpux Wabi didn't quite "just work" and I had to relink it with X11R5 libraries. The README file included with AIX did point me in that direction tho (not about Wabi, that the R5 compat libraries were a thing at all)

Before that it wouldn't really work. I'm sure this knowledge will be super useful to the wider world. 😃

#retrocomputing #unix #sierra

After playing with #solaris #hpux and #aix back to back the last few days I can say, confidently, that AIX is the worst of the three. I'm not quite sure yet if Solaris or HP-UX wins overall.

SAM is really nice tho...

cc: @thomholwerda

#retrocomputing #unix

If you were wondering if you could print from a #hpux system running a #windows3 application via Wabi via JetDirect being emulated on an Oki c542 printer.

Yes, yes you can. It all just kind of works without much fuss, except that I had to change the snmp community name for my printer because the old hpux drivers don't seem to like the snmpv2 stuff?

I'm kind of floored this all works.

#retrocomputing #printers #unix

Total productivity!

#retrocomputing #hpux #sierra

For everyone worried that #unix and in particular #hpux might be hard to use, I made a short #tutorial video below on how to install software.

In this video you see how easy it is to install some games!

#retrocomputing #parisc #cde

The #hp9000 b2000 #parisc system with #hpux

The #retrocomputer with a heart that loves you back.

#unix #retrocomputing

If you ever wondered if it is possible to boot a #hpux #b2000 #parisc system from an #ide drive:

No no you can't. It seems like it can for an annoyingly long time, but no, only from an IDE CDROM drive, and only only if it set to master on the bus.

#retrocomputing #unix #hp

Every time I think I have all possible #scsi peripherals and converters I find a new combination I don't have.

Turns out I have SCA to UW converters, but not UW to SCA... And 3 guesses which I needed to put an extra drive in my #hpux machine...

Sigh... Sometimes I think USB is bad...

#retrocomputing

#HPUX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad
It’s 31 December 2025 today, the last day of the year, but it also happens to mark the end of support for the last and final version of one of my favourite operating systems: #HP-UX. Today is the day #HPE puts final nail in coffin of their long-running #UNIX operating system, marking end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX variants, a reign ended by cheap x86 hardware and the increasing popularisation of #Linux
https://www.osnews.com/story/144094/hp-ux-hits-end-of-life-today-and-im-sad/

Yhden ikonisen käyttöjärjestelmän taru loppui

Hewlett-Packardin oma Unix, vuonna 1982 julkaistu HP-UX on lakkautettu. Käyttöjärjestelmän viimeisen version aktiivinen tuki lakkasi vuoden 2025 lopulla.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2026/01/07/hp-ux-kayttojarjestelma-lakkautettiin

#hpux #hpe #hp #unix #käyttöjärjestelmä #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka

Per fi ha mort HP-UX.

Ho sento, mai m'ha agradat!

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/hpux_end_of_life/

#hpux

The last supported version of #HPUX is no more
The final version of #HPE's own flavor of #Unix, HP-UX 11i v3, is now out of support. It is the end of a line that started in 1982.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/hpux_end_of_life/

Not a bad run! I used to support #HP's HP-UX two decades ago when I worked at #WHOI

RIP #HPUX. It was always the UNIX variant I disliked using the most ...

The last supported version of HP-UX is no more • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/hpux_end_of_life/

@freya Unfortunately I don't, outside of HPE.

The folks I can think to even ask are the NetBSD pkgsrc folks or The UNIX Heritage Society (TUHS) mailing list. I feel like it's a long shot since it's proprietary, though :(

Maybe tagging #hpux will get some visibility?

Ding Dong, The Wicked Witch is Dead!

https://www.osnews.com/story/144094/hp-ux-hits-end-of-life-today-and-im-sad/

#Unix #HPUX #RIP #AnotherOneBitesTheDust #Wicked #OperatingSystem #Death #Tech #News

Thank you for your service! 🫡 #hpux

https://www.osnews.com/story/144094/hp-ux-hits-end-of-life-today-and-im-sad/

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2026/01/02/12829/hp-ux-%e7%b5%90%e6%9d%9f%e6%8e%89%e4%ba%86/

HP-UX 結束掉了

#end #eol #hp #HpUx #hpux #life #os #unix

@osnews HP-UX (some Domain/OS) are what cut my teeth as a sysadmin at #unido (now #tudortmund) in the 90s. It had its quirks but I remember it - and the nice PA-RISC Hardware - fondly. And I remember updating tons of machines because #y2k was about to happen. And I remember #10base2. Cheers to HP-UX!
#HPUX

HP open-sourcing HP-UX in the hopes of saving the Alpha platform
#HP #HPUX #Alpha

Common Desktop Environment comes back with a new point release after 2 years!

#CDE #Desktop #Computers #Laptops #Linux #TechNews #TechUpdates #HPUX

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/common-desktop-environment-comes-back-after-2-years-with-v2-5-3/

#plptools update!

Haiku

The #HaikuOS port is now mostly working, with caveats. Everything compiles except plpfuse, which might require migrating plpfuse to FUSE3. I've been able to send and receive files using plpftp, but RS232 DSR checking has to be disabled in the code. I don't want to speak too soon as it could very well be my mistake, but there might be a bug in Haiku's implementation of ioctl() for serial ports. Stay tuned...

FreeBSD

The #FreeBSD port currently has issues with linking to readline, but I'm sure that's fixable. However, a different issue has come up involving FreeBSD's implementation of the timezone global variable. This, in turn, might have uncovered some very old, slightly iffy code when working out timezone offsets.

Other platforms

The #macOS port is running fine at the moment, thanks to @captfab and @jbmorley's sterling work. If you're on macOS, check out Reconnect.

I'd like to resurrect the #NetBSD port for a few reasons, not least because you can still run the current release of NetBSD on a Series 5. I have no experience with NetBSD, so that's my challenge for this afternoon.

There are indications that plptools has at some point worked on #HPUX, #IRIX and #AIX. I personally feel that these ports probably don't need to be resurrected.

The code also mentions #Solaris - I'd certainly consider working on an #IllumOS port, if people were interested.

Interestingly, there's no mention of #OpenBSD, but again I would consider working on that if people are interested.

This is very much a *NIX/POSIX suite of tools. A Windows port isn't going to happen any time soon, unless someone wants to try building it using cygwin. I'm not saying it will never happen, but it's not a priority.

Misc

A couple of small bugs have been squashed by Reuben, including an issue where logging didn't go to stdout when using the --autoexit switch.

#psion #retrocomputing #retrodev

#WindowsNT and #NetWare on #PARISC, and a #HPUX port to #x86

https://www.openpa.net/windows_netware_pa-risc.html

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”