From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pdagog@gmail.com (Pierre DAVID) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:55:19 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Classic Unix workstation GUIs In-Reply-To: References: <20120911065802.GI8834@arwen.poofy.goof.com> <20120911084142.GA57646@vagabond.u-strasbg.fr> Message-ID: <20120911125519.GB93475@vagabond.u-strasbg.fr> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:40:35AM -0400, Ronald Natalie wrote: > > Amusingly the hardware between the 9000 and 3000 line are the same. The 9000's were marketed with HP/UX. > The 3000's ran MPE (or as we called it Mighty Poor Excuse). I had an HP/UX machine back when I was consulting > The hardware was the same only for PA-RISC based machines (i.e. HP-9000 800 series and later, not the 200/300/400 series based on the Motorola 68k nor the older 500 series based on a proprietary processor). > with Unipress back in 87 or so (and then we did a lot with them in my later job when the newer systems came out). > But I'm trying to remember a pre-X windowing system and can't think of it. The later HP/UX had an their own proprietary > Motif-based window manager. > If I remember correctly, the switch from HP-Windows to X-Window on HP 9000/300 and /800 series (X10, not X11 at this time) occurred around 1987 or 1988. Pierre