Hewlett-Packard 3000 series is a family of minicomputers the 1973 after a difficult development phase on the market came. The HP3000 should become the first minicomputer with a complete time-sharing operating system.

Hardware

The first computers were based on a 16-Bit CISC processor. Starting from 1988 Pa-RISC-architecture with 32-Bit addressing was introduced. The hardware is identically to that the HP 9000 HP-UX family.

Operating system

The operating system of the HP3000 is called mdu to indicate with introduction of the PA-RISC architecture mdu XL and late MPE/iX around interoperability with Unix. Mdu contains the data base system turbo-image, the actual success prescription of the HP3000.

2003 adjusted HP the sales of the HP3000. Maintenance is continued up to the year end 2006.

Related links

• '' The Classic HP of 3000 '' - more exact views of the early history of the HP3000.
• 'HP e3000 Web server - jazz - Web server of HP.
• '' The HPe3000 portal '' - German portal

Articles in category "HP 3000"

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• 3k Associates' HP3000/HP 3000 Site: Solutions for E-mail(SMTP/MIME ...
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• HP3000-L Frequently Asked Questions
  FAQ list taken from the HP3000-L listserver and its parallel Usenet companion newsgroup comp.sys.hp.mpe.


• The Classic HP 3000
  All HP 3000 computers run the proprietary MPE operating system and come ... From: Ted Workman To: Bob Green Subject: HP 3000 and MPE stability Date: Mon, ...