Re: Hardware Compatibility

["Dom De Vitto" <dom@DeVitto.com>]

Actually they are both - the HP9000 series has:
 s300 (?) were MC680x0 and not quick MC68000s either.
 s700 and later were HPPA and _real_ quick.

My old desktop 712s outran 7 sparcstation 2s in a distributed
compilation contest  :-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf
Of Henning Brauer
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 5:56 AM
To: Misc @OpenBSD
Subject: Re: Hardware Compatibility


On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:15:09PM -0400, Nick wrote:
> Venice Miazza wrote:
> ...
> > I have an Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 8705 desktop, and I
> > want to get OpenBSD on it as part of a dual-boot, but
> > the website says the 9000 series is the one that's supported.
> > 
> > Is 8705 close enough, or should I look for a
> > different, probably not as good, Unix operating
> > system?
> 
> You are confusing HP9000 (a Unix computer with an 680x0-based chip)

actually, the 9000s are hppa and not m68k.

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