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🔏 Matthias WiesmannRunning MAE on a HP-UX/PA-RISC laptop… I used MAE when doing my PhD on a Sparc Station, mostly to run Deneba Canvas. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mae</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classicmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#classicmac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hpux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hpux</a> <a href="http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-real-powerbook-macintosh-application.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-real-powerbook-macintosh-application.html</a>

Blake PattersonAnd one of the most interesting things about the PA-RISC based HP-9000 712 series is its Color Recovery system (allowing approximated 24-bit color from an 8-bit framebuffer -- which is effective and fascinating) and also, for me, the fact that it runs NEXTSTEP. It's my fastest NEXTSTEP machine.<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HP</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HPUX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HPUX</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UNIX</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NEXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NEXTSTEP</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NeXT</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/workstaiton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workstaiton</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputers</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CPU</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@OpenPA/114991772837281984" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@OpenPA/114991772837281984</a>

Michael PiotrowskiOooh! MAE on a PrecisionBook!<a href="http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-real-powerbook-macintosh-application.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-real-powerbook-macintosh-application.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HPUX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HPUX</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/PARISC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PARISC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

stdevel<a href="https://mastodon.social/@OpenPA" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@OpenPA</a> Lovely thread! Had both a C8000 and a RX2600 10 years ago running <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RHEL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RHEL</a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/HPUX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HPUX</a> and <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenVMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenVMS</a> 🤩

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@runjaj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@runjaj</a>I love old unixy nostalgia projects, but <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/cde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CDE</a> never grabbed me by the heartstrings (or brainstrings). I used it a bit with <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/hpux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HPUX</a> back in the early 2000s. It always felt like "We have IRIX at home." ;)I have seen the modern recreation of IRIX, the <a href="https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">MAXX Creative Desktop</a>. While it's pretty, it lacks a lot of the custom/proprietary IRIX tools that made IRIX so groovy, I think.

Michael Piotrowski⇢ What I find more surprising is that the 720 was actually a little too slow to run HP-VUE smoothly, which makes me wonder how it ran on 68K-based machines…So people typically used either twm or HP-VUE Lite. There seems to be hardly any information online about the latter (apart from the documentation <a href="https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_hp9000hpuxalUserEnvironment3.0UsersGuideJul92_34368808/page/n493/mode/1up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_hp9000hpuxalUserEnvironment3.0UsersGuideJul92_34368808/page/n493/mode/1up</a>), but it was really almost the best of both worlds, i.e., fast and esthetically pleasing.□ <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HPUX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HPUX</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

Michael PiotrowskiCrazy, I’m posting about 100BaseVG and HP-VUE on the same day!So, one more thought… Back in the day, we ran a DUX (diskless cluster) of about a dozen Snakes (HP9000/720) over 10Base2. They had disks for local swap and scratch space (context-dependent files, anybody?) and ran <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HPUX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HPUX</a> 9.And it worked fine. Booting all machines at the same time obviously was slow, but there was rarely any need to reboot them at all. ⇢ <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

G :donor: :Tick:IntroductionRedoing my <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introduction</a> as it was a bit of a sparse one when I joined.I am a lifelong <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> enthusiast, having worked in Financial Services IT for more than 25 years, across multiple disciplines including: * <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Unisys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unisys</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MCP</a>-based <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/mainframe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mainframe</a> platforms (A17/A19/HMP NX 6800/Libra 180/Libra 6xx/Libra 890) * <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/EMC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EMC</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Symmetrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Symmetrix</a> storage arrays (DMX 3/4 and most recently VMAX) including experience of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SRDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SRDF</a>(S), SRDF(A), BCV * <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WindowsServer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WindowsServer</a> (2000 through 2019) including <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ActiveDirectory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActiveDirectory</a> * Various <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a>/ <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unix</a> OSes (<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HPUX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HPUX</a>/ <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RHEL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RHEL</a>/ <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Centos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Centos</a>/ <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ubuntu</a>/ <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Raspbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Raspbian</a>) including experience of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GFS</a>/#GFS2 SAN storage clustering * Virtual Tape Server technology (B&L/Crossroads/ETI Net SPHiNX, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TSM</a>) * Automation/Scripting (<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PowerShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PowerShell</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NT</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Batch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Batch</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOS</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bash</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OPAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OPAL</a>) * <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Security</a> (<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PrivilegedAccessManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PrivilegedAccessManagement</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LeastPrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeastPrivilege</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/IAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IAM</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Firewalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Firewalls</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/EDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EDR</a>) * <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BusinessContinuity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BusinessContinuity</a>/#DisasterRecovery (Design/Implementation/Operations)I’m focused on learning and getting hands-on with <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RaspberryPi</a> at home and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cloud</a> computing solutions both at work and at home.I moved into a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SecurityEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SecurityEngineering</a> role in 2020, so a lot of my focus is now more security focussed across all tech stacks.My main focus at present when it comes to cloud is predominately <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Azure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Azure</a>, with Google and AWS of interest also, as well as other cloud infrastructure services such as those provided by CloudFlare, though I’m planning a move away from them due to their moral/ethical choices.Away from work and tech, I love to <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#travel</a> the world with my wife and enjoy very amateur <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photography</a> to record our adventures.I also love most genres of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a>, live in concert when I can, with a particular love of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Rock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rock</a>/ <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Metal</a> and also <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Trance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trance</a> (coincidentally, given the profession of a somewhat more well known namesake of mine!).

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