HP 3000

The Hewlett -Packard 3000 series is a family of minicomputers, launch was after a difficult development phase the end of 1972; the first model was withdrawn back in America, released in late 1973 after revisions back and replaced in late 1974 by a successor. The exact timing, there are different information.

The HP3000 was the first mini-computer with a full time-sharing operating system and build on the great success of the Only - Basic timeshare systems. Architecture based in contrast to the conventional register architectures on a stack architecture. As usual programs that have been compiled on the first models, even on the latest models run unchanged.

Hardware

The first computer based on a 16 -bit CISC processor. As of 1988, the PA - RISC architecture was introduced with 32- bit addressing. The hardware is identical to that of the HP 9000 HP-UX family.

Operating system

The operating system is called the HP3000 MPE, see the introduction of the PA -RISC architecture MPE XL and later MPE / iX to ensure interoperability with Unix. MPE includes the database system Turbo Image, the real success of the HP3000. In 1999, with the implementation of web functionalities the system of " HP3000 " was renamed to " HPe3000 ". November 2001, the system / the support was discontinued at first the end of 2006 from the manufacturer Hewlett- Packard ( End of support), but then again extended until the end of 2008. The production and sale of new systems was discontinued at the end of 2003.

The maintenance was continued until 31 December 2012.