On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:50:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:06:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > So, I'd just like to re-emphasise this, because I still haven't seen > > anything that counts as useful. I'm thinking something like "We use s390 > > to host 6231 scientific users on Debian in a manner compatible to the > > workstations they use; the software we use is ....; we rely on having > > security support from Debian because we need to be on the interweb 2; > > ...". At the moment, the only use cases I'm confident exist are: > > > > m68k, mips, mipsel, hppa: I've got one in the basement, and I like > > to brag that I run Debian on it; also I occassionally get some work out > > of > > it, but it'd be trivial to replace with i386. > > Aren't the first three of these also actively being used in embedded > applications? (not sure about that one; I'm not /that/ much involved > with embedded stuff) > > I can also imagine some hppa boxes being used as test or development > platform in the enterprise. Note that they were still being sold as new > only a few years ago. >...
HP still produces both workstations and servers with PA-RISK processors. Note that 50 out of the 500 fastest computers in the world [1] are computers with PA-RISK processors manufactured by HP in 2004. cu Adrian [1] http://www.top500.org/ -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]