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HP-UX? Hps unix variant. It had some good features and some odd issues. One of my least favorite OSs. HPUX did have an add-on (Real Time Extensions?) to allow

HP-UX? Hps unix variant. It had some good features and some odd issues. One of my least favorite OSs. HPUX did have an add-on (Real Time Extensions?) to allow you to disable processor interrupts on select processors providing almost realtime mainframe(superdome) computing (some system calls were verboten in this mode). Of course a crash would mean a reboot. Grouping processes to processor sets (psrsets) was kind of neat. So they did try and its not like they didn't have experience with OS development before. Starting with Linux is probably a better bet for them.

gaius 12y ago
HPUX is light years ahead of Linux on workload management, seriously. HP have an amazing portfolio of OSs, HPUX, OpenVMS, Domain/OS, NonStop, etc. Linux is the lowest common denominator, in 2014 it's barely where these were in 1994...
- viraptor 12y ago
  I think your post needs a use case qualifier. [For some server work] Linux is the lowest common denominator, in 2014 it's barely where these were in 1994... What's the status of nvidia graphics support on all of those systems? Or laptop suspend support?
  - Aloha 12y ago
    I'd argue that's the problem with Linux, its trying very much to be all things, to all people, rather than a really good desktop system, a really good server system or a really good mobile system.
- acdha 12y ago
  > HPUX is light years ahead of Linux on workload management That's a pretty sweeping claim – can you provide examples?