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PA-RISC – Back to the Future (Again..)

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As part of my quest to test Linux on more obscure/historical hardware, and given that the theme was ‘HP’ after my perilous foray into the world of Linux on IA64, I have now acquired (eBay!) an ‘inexpensive’ PA-RISC system – HP 9000/785 C3700 – after upgrading from an older C3000, and adding some more up-to-date IO cards.. … Continue reading →

Blast fron the Past – CDE finally open-sourced

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Harking back to the good old HP9000 workstation, and HP-UX, during my time at HP..    The ‘Common Desktop Environment’ (CDE) has now been open sourced, with (apparently) good old Motif to follow soon..      It may have been ugly by modern standards, but still better looking by far than Windows 3.0… Some of this became part of the … Continue reading →