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HP-UX Maintenance

HP-UX
KindOperating system
Appeared1983
StatusMaintenance
CreatorHP
FamilyUnix
PlatformPA-RISC → Itanium
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

HP's System V Unix — enterprise-solid, still supported, bound to the Itanium sunset.

Descended from Research Unix
Ran on HP 9000
Created by Hewlett-Packard
Predecessors Research Unix

HP-UX (1983) was HP's Unix System V for the 9000 line — HP-UX 1.0 through 11i, running PA-RISC and later Itanium. It added HP's own extensions (VUE desktop, LVM, the HP ServiceGuard clustering).\n\nHP-UX carried the HP-9000 line until 2008; the last PA-RISC machines ran it into the 2010s.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX