During the early 1990s, so-called “pizzabox” workstations were very popular. Unix workstations had usually been bulky and cumbersome affairs since the 1980s, so smaller, desktop-compatible boxes were a welcome change. HP produced two PA-RISC pizzaboxes in its lineup: HP 9000 705/710 and the ever popular HP 9000 712. HP 9000 705/710 were the first small PA-RISC workstations, released in 1992. They used 32-bit PA-7000 PA-RISC processors and used a simplified version of the “Snakes” ASP ...| OpenPA.net
Another slight detour from PA-RISC content on OpenPA: The RISC Laptop Archive on the various RISC-based laptops sold throughout the 1990s. Technical computing in the 1990s was mostly done on RISC workstations with Unix operating systems and specialized applications. For mobile use cases, some popular Unix vendors built RISC laptops. Often based on contemporary Unix workstations, these RISC laptops were often marketed for government and military uses such as command, technical analysis and sur...| OpenPA.net
OpenBSD is an Unix-like open source operating system for PA-RISC and supports 32-bit HP 9000 workstations and some 64-bit computers.| www.openpa.net
PA-RISC computers used many standard SCSI controllers and chips, mostly from NCR.| www.openpa.net
Computer benchmark results for PA-RISC and Itanium systems with SPECint and SPECfp scores.| www.openpa.net
HP-UX is HP’s commercial Unix operating system for PA-RISC computers, version 11i from the 2000s runs on most PA-RISC and Itanium computers from HP.| www.openpa.net
The popular HP 9000 family of Unix systems included many different types of PA-RISC servers, workstations and mainframes between the 1980s and 2000s.| www.openpa.net
HP 9000 computers were technical servers and Unix workstations based on HP PA-RISC, Itanium and other platforms, produced for almost three decades by HP.| www.openpa.net
PA-RISC history starts in the early 1980s with the predecessors of PA-RISC, the software timeline starts in the late 1980s in parallel to first commercial PA-RISC products.| www.openpa.net
PA-RISC computers used custom HP and industry standard bus designs in HP 9000 workstations and servers.| www.openpa.net