HP-UX History Y2K

By Xah Lee. Date: 2022-11-22.

2003-12-01

hp logo, used thruout 1990s and 2000s.

HP logo 1979

HP logo, started in 2012.

HP stands for Hewlett-Packard, from the names of its two founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. Both were Stanford University students. HP was founded in 1939. HP's unix offering is called HP-UX.

complete HP-UX docs are here: ❮http://docs.hp.com/❯. HUGE. Including PDF versions. Particular useful are:

Sys admin guide: ❮http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90701/B2355-90701.html❯
user guide on shells: (for intermediate users) ❮http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90046/B2355-90046.html❯
HP-UX user guide (for unix beginners): ❮http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90164/B2355-90164.html❯

HP-UX software archive heaven is called “Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX”. It contains much source and pre-compiled software for HP-UX. They have many mirrors. Here are two: ~~http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/~~,

hpux.connect.org.uk 2020-01-10 pbgm6 — hpux.connect.org.uk 2020-01-10 http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

HP-UX History Y2K

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