From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA06119 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:23:52 -0700 From: willy@thepuffingroup.com Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:24:39 -0500 To: Andrew Shugg Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Value of an old K-class server? Message-ID: <20000229122439.F9944@thepuffingroup.com> References: <20000301010645.Y30912@neep.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000301010645.Y30912@neep.com.au>; from Andrew Shugg on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:06:47AM +0800 List-ID: On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:06:47AM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote: > The lowest-numbered K class machine I can find on HP's website is a K220. > I'm fairly sure the machine I've looked at is a K200, but if this model > never existed then it's probably a 220. =) I've just been going through The List of hardware, bashing the hw database into something more sane. The K200 did exist, codenamed `Kittyhawk' with a 100MHz PA7200 CPU in it. It has an NIO bus in it which is something we don't have documentation on yet (also known as HP-PB, I think). The K-class machines probably wont work very soon, but I suspect someone will eventually get them working. Mention the cost of getting a support contract on it if you need to scare management into dropping the price :-) > When or if I get it, it will be joining my HP 375/125 in helping with testing > for the parisc-linux project, hence the vague relation to this list. =) 300 series... aarrrgghh :-) 300/400 series machines are m68k based. We are sharing their HIL keyboard driver (share in the sense of `copied and made changes but will merge back later' sense), and Steve Shack mentioned something about the 300-series STI interface recently.