No RISC No Fun
OpenPA is a resource for HP PA-RISC and IA64 computers with in-depth technical descriptions and background information. This site is independent of and does not represent The Hewlett Packard Company in any way.
Hardware details of the PA-RISC platform are in the hardware section; the computers section describes individual PA-RISC and IA64 computer systems, which can also be directly accessed via Shortcuts (i.e., http://www.openpa.net/model). PA-RISC operating systems are detailed in the software section.
Ten years OpenPA.net
December 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of OpenPA.net.
This site started in December 1999 (under a different title and URL) at a time when Google just started operating and Wikipedia didn't exist yet. It has been a long and rewarding time maintaining this resource on PA-RISC computing.
About 1.7 million visitors accessed this site since December 1999, according to a very rough estimate. Contributions and mails peaked in the early years between 1999-2002, probably owing to the fact that really no other information on PA-RISC was available then, which changed since.
This site was hosted at various locations on sometimes quite bizarre platforms, including a DECstation 5000/200 (25MHz R3000 MIPS!), Alphastations (200 and 255), a HP 9000 712/100, and at some point even on a Motorola MVME187 system.
Thanks to all those who helped making this site happen, with providing infrastructure, services and contributing and correcting content!
Previous news entries are on the News page.
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