HP 9000

HP 9000 is the designation for 1982 from Hewlett Packard manufactured, HP- UX based workstations and server systems. After 1982, the Workstation HP 9020 saw (according to advertising the mainframe to the desktop of an engineer or developer ) with the HP-proprietary 32 -bit FOCUS architecture, the light of the world, decided to Hewlett -Packard to market all technical workstations and HP 9000. From the 32 -bit workstation HP 9020 HP 9000 Model 520 was, then the 16 -bit model HP -9836 followed ( based on Motorola ), which was the HP 9000 Model 236. From 1985 all HP 9000 systems were equipped with 32 -bit 68k CPUs from Motorola. The newer systems with Motorola's design have been marketed as the HP 9000 Series 300. In 1989, the HP workstation manufacturer Apollo Computer and offered from 1990 which also predominantly Motorola 68k - based systems as HP Apollo 9000 series 400 at. In addition to HP- UX workstations in the 400 series could also be operated with the acquisition of Apollo Domain / OS.

With the development of its own PA-RISC CPU architecture, the 700 series were introduced for the workstations and 800 for the server. In the early years this was the only numbering naming for servers and workstations (eg 735 Workstation) of this generation. It was later transferred to classify the systems with letters to the purpose of segregating and performance categories, leaving only cryptic read out of the numbering previously. In the 700 series, there were also embedded computer with VMEbus under the name Industrial Workstation.

But the valid to date letter classifications are based on the numbering. Corresponding system messages, for example, with the UNIX command uname, provide system numbers like a 785

With the restructuring of the labeling scheme has also been replaced by little the house GSC bus. Next was the PCI bus is connected via an adapter to the GSC bus, was swung around to the workstation series B1000 final PCI to also be replaced by 2004. As a substitute, in so far last PA - RISC workstation from Hewlett Packard, now a mix of PCI -X and AGP was used.

Well in allusion to the omniscient HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey equipped HP first launched its series -500 series with the suffix 9000. An additional name that has remained to this day.

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