Subject: HP models
To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
From: Scott Telford <st@epcc.ed.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 01/06/1997 12:34:06
> 500 (a) First incarnation: non-PA-RISC, non-68000 multiuser HP-UX system.
> I saw one once ... never used one.
>
> (b) Second incarnation: some multiuser NT PC thingy I've never
> seen either. (Clever of marketing to reuse the name, what?)
IIRC, (a) was the HP9000/500 and (b) is the HP500. Another source of confusion
was the HP700 series of X-terminals vs. the HP9000/700 series workstations.
ISTR an HP9000/200 68010-based series as well?
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