[parisc-linux] HP3000 928LX Support? (fwd)

[Bill Katz (William)]

Stan Seiler wrote:
|> > > I have the opportunity to acquire a HP3000 928LX server
|> > > and would like to know if it is supported.
|> > 
|> > HP3000 systems are not PA-RISC systems. They use the Motorola 68000 CPU
|...
|> Firmware is different but many of the platform components
|> are the same as K and T class machines.
|
|
|The HP 3000/928 is a PA-RISC system (48 MHz PA7100LC (PCX-L)),
|with HP-PB I/O (2 slots), 64 KB of integrated cache, floating point
|co-processor, and a max memory of 512 MB.
|
|It's 100% identical to the HP 9000 E25 (2-slot HP-PB model).
|

Oh, so it's a Wright Brothers :)  In that case your luck ought to be
pretty good if you only care about:

1) Internal LASI based LAN and SCSI

2) RS232 connected console

It will never support graphics.  But it's so close to a 712 that it should
certainly boot.  And the suggestion taht you trade it for something 
more closely resembling a workstation is certainly valid.

	-Bill