HP UX road map and comparision table

[unix adm]

Hello Exports,


I am looking for two things,

1) HP UNIX road map which give me details of the OS relase since starting (as old as possible )

2) HP unix OS feature comparision table of all HP unix releases.

Any help would be appreciated .

Thanks in advance
Rajeev

[smatador]

Hi,
Look here
http://h20338.www2.hp.com/hpux11i/downloads/public_hp-ux_systems_support.pdf
Hope it helps

[unix adm]

HI,

Thanks

however I have been through this and it does not talk about the old OS rleases (before HP UX 11iv1 as HP UX 10.20 or HP UX 9.0)

Also does not talk about the key features of the OS.

Thanks anyway.

Rajeev

[smatador · Accepted solution]

Hi,
You could also go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX
or
http://www.openpa.net/hp-ux_unix.html
to have more detail

[Emil Velez]

Some of the things I remember off the top of my head.
What specifically are you looking for ?

HPUX 8.0
BSD startup scripts /etc/rc /etc/inittab
Sectioned Disks
separate distribution for servers and workstations
diskless workstation support
60 MB was a big external disk

HPUX 9.0
BSD startup
LVM on Servers (this was big)
Server product ServiceGuard introduced

HPUX 9.04
nsswitch.conf
minor other changes

HPUX 10.0
System V startup /sbin/init.d format
Servers and Workstations same

HPUX 10.01
VxFS filesystem

HPUX 10.20
Bigger VXFS filesystems and files
Still 32 bit OS
DCE Threads
thread based kernel
process only 1 thread
64 bit hardware supported with 32 bit OS
Y2K issues resolved
HPUX 11.0
You know this one
64 bit and 32 bit OS distributions
Lots of new features

[Nido]

Hi,

Check this URL , section 3.3 :
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/

Thanks,

[unix adm]

Hi ,


All thanks for the input , I finally have one presentation ready :)!

Sorry about the delay however I will assign points now.

Keep the ITRC spirit up!

Thanks and Regards
Rajeev!

[unix adm]

I m closing this thread now.

Thanks