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by pjmlp 95 days ago
And great technologies as well, HP-UX (Vault was one of the first UNIX containers), Modula-3 (Olivetti/Compaq became part of HP), ...
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justin66 95 days ago
Those HPUX machines were hot!

No, seriously, sometimes they caught on fire.

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pjmlp 95 days ago
Interesting, I used HP-UX across a few years, but never heard of heat moments that would require using an extinguisher on the server room.
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justin66 95 days ago
I only ever heard of HPUX workstations catching fire. No idea about their servers.
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pjmlp 95 days ago
This was during 1999-2002 and 2004-2006, HP-UX 10.x and 11.
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