The HP Apollo 9000 Model 706 Is a New Low-End, PA-RISC Station for the Entry-Level Market. the HP Standard Instrument Control Li
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The HP Apollo 9000 Model 706 is a new low-end, PA-RISC based color work- station for the entry-level market. See ~e S8 The HP Standard Instrument Control Library is an W) library for inetnunent control av~lications on HP ~I;oio ISeries 700 and HP 9000 Model V. controllers. See page 2% New network-ready HP Vectra 38WSW PC - latest addition to HP's network-ready PC family. See page $4 HP OpenView Release 3 - the next generation of network and system nuuraRement *pa0 New HP DTC represents a signitlat step toward making the DTCthechosen server for HP-UX. HEWLETT PACKARD i -'. -. , - 8 KP Computer Update, June 1992 HP Computer Museum www.hpmuseum.net For research and education purposes only. In This Issue Management Perspective HP 3000 field upgrade HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 5 changes Dud CRX multimonitor HP Premier Account Support upgrade General News NetBase brings disaster HP NCS 2 for Domain and 7 Events tolerance to HP 3000 OSF/l Strategic concerns of New HP TurboSTORWfi 11 SoftPC 3.0 now shipping on HP users trial copy Series 700 and 800 HP executive management Peer-tepeer connectivity for HP FTM9000 on HP Apollo seminar HP LU 6.2 APVXL 9000 Series 700 U.K. object orientation and Return credits for high-end Wingz, Island Graphics, and ObjectIQ seminar series memory and 110 add-on Lotus obsolescence products Promotions Reduced high-end memory HP 1000 Systems 9 prices 33 HP 1000 A-Series microfloppy discontinuance HP 3000 Systems HP 9000 Systems 12 The open HP 3000 - the best 23 Making sense of the standards Personal Computers commercial system morass 34 New network-ready HP Vectra 386/25N PC Announcing the HP 3000 Lntroducing HP 9000 Model Corporate Business Systems 890 Corporate Business HP Vectra 486U PC series - New HP 3000 Series 987 Server desktop PCs for Windows and CAD HP 3000 Corporate Business HP 9000 Corporate Business System DX data center Server Model 890 upgrade Built-in support of Novell and solution program MS LAN Manager remote startup in HP Vectra 386/N HP 3000 NFS interoperability Mainstream available on PCs testing HP 9000 and HP Apollo 9000 HP Vectra 486U, 486s, and Networking enhanced with HP EDA software 386s PCs rackmount kits HP MPWiX Release 4.0 discontinuance Display drivers for HP Ultra Series 6000 disk EGS discontinuance HP HP-FL HP VGA+ video array support on HP 3000 systems HP's PC Instrument Tools for Workstations Windows integration service HP 3000 Series 9x7 memory 28 New HP Apollo 900CI Model enhancement 705 color workstations HP's PC-300 Controller Integration service HP 3000 management with Introducing HP Standard HP OpenView Network Node Instrument Control Library HP Vectra RSl25C and Manager HP Vectra 486/25T PC Introducing GRAFPAK-GKS discontinuance 3480-compatible tape drives HP ADVISE software HP IGC 10 and IGC 20 supported on HP 3000 Series migration tool 990/992 Graphics Controllers Video card for HP Apollo 9000 discontinuance HP Model 10 GB/A rewritable Series 700 workstations optical autochanger on HP PC308 and PC-312 HP 3000 CIO systems HP Apollo 9000 Model 425e to controllers replaced 710 upgrades HP OpenView Console: administration made easy HP Computer Update, June 1992 In This Issue Networks HP DTC surpasses competi- Peripherals 41 HP OpenView Release 3 for tion with nailed ports 50 Mass Storage strategic NSM solutions Management software New SCSI-2 8.0-GB data HP OpenView Network Node requirements for enhanced compression DAT for Manager Release 3.0 HP DTC HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations Introducing HP OpenView New high-performance, low- network and systems manage- cost HP EtherTwist PC LAN Ordering options for disk ment platform products adapters storage products and kits New HP OpenView Manage- HP EtherTwist PC LAN New HP 3000 and HP 9000 ment Stations based on Adapter lifetime warranty external storage prices Release 3.0 HP Modular Adapter for "HP1.3 -GB DAT upgrade kit n Ordering HP OpenView HP 12-Port Hub Plus shipping discontinuance correction Windows/DOS products Throughput improvements for HP OpenView upgrade and HP Resource Sharing support products HP LAN Manager for OS/2 A new step toward making the upgrade program ending DTC the clear terminal server HP EtheW&bit LAN of choice for HP-UX Adapter price decrease 4 HP Computer Update, June 1992 Management Perspective When the HP Computer zillions of dollars we have invested in them. If open Update editor asked me systems can help us do that - and I think they can - to write an article on then their promise is very great indeed. But will the open systems, I must promise become a reality? Have we made any admit that I took on the progress? The answer is "Yes." challenge with a fair degree of trepidation. As First, there have been a number of meaningful stand- a topic, it's right up there ards and standards organizations put in place to with quality and produc- facilitate the realization of the open systems promise. tivity. It's good stuff, but OSI, OSFM,XIOpen*, COS, POSE, the SQL Access the kind of topic that is Committee, and others are beginning to deliver on the often discussed in vague, promise.HP's own "Openviewn network management indefinite terms. So, since tool has been licensed by IBM and chosen by OSF as a you are not a captive key part of its Distributed Management Environment. audience, I'll try to be as specific as I can and talk about So, there's no question that a great deal of progress has open systems as a reality rather than as a promise. been made and that there is not a single hardware or software vendor that is not trying to introduce products First, a definition is probably in order. My boss, John compatible with the open systems vision. Young, defines open systems as "the technical equiva- lent to teamwork." More specifically, an open system is But I must ask, as you probably do, whether open a network of heterogeneous computers that can work systems are enough. And I believe the answer is a together as if they were a single integrated whole. I can qualified "I don't think so." I don't believe that open hear you now. "So, what?" A fair question. So, let me systems alone will make information systems more try to answer it. responsive. They won't necessarily lead to break- through improvements in software development times. Open systems hold different appeals for different They won't eliminate that troublesome backlog of user people. From the MIS perspective, open systems mean requests. And they won't make the job of day-teday that MIS directors don't have to apologize to their CEOs software maintenance easier. I believe that the real for the technical choices they've made in the past. answer to these problems lies in a new computing Because open systems can allow us to continue paradigm that must be combined with open systems - realizing value from our sigruficant installed base of client-server computing. hardware and software. For others, the appeal of open systems lies in their ability to reduce dependence on While open systems alone fall short of delivering true any particular vendor. Then there are those who are business benefits, client-server computing in a propri- involved in global markets and see open systems as a etary environment doesn't solve the problems that open "weapon" for breaking down the barriers of time and systems can. Together though, the two can offer a distance - thus allowing computers and information tremendous potential for delivering business benefits in systems to be a full participant in the realization of a a timely manner. global economy. Finally, there are the many third parties that hope that open systems will dow everyone The term "client-server" refers to an architecture in to capitalize on their sigrulicant product contributions. which some components request services and other Personally, I think the ultimate benefit of open systems components deliver those services. Both components is their ability to break down the artificial barriers that can be widely distributed across the network, and they have prevented us from harnessing the full power of can be heterogeneous or "open." computers and to finally maximize the return on the continued 071 nmt page HP Computer IJpdate, June 1992 5 We at HP MIS are fully committed to this architecture. are so sigruficant that you would be doing yourselves In fact, all our sigruficant new development is being and your company a considerable senice if you at least delivered in a client-server architecture that is hetero- try an experiment using heterogeneous clients or geneous. But I can assure you that we didn't move from servers. ThIS way, when you're hished, you'll be able a blank piece of paper to full adoption of this architec- to see the power of both open systems and client-server ture in one step. Like everyone else, we started with computing. some experiments. And when we began, we assumed that this architecture was going to be more complex, Now, maybe you're reluctant to try such an experiment that it would be hard to learn and would take lots of on that new application your business partners have training, and that it would take longer to develop been clamoring for over the last several months or applications in this environment. But we wanted to try. years. OK, maybe I wouldn't take that risk either. In Why? Because we also assumed that the benefits of this fact, our very first experiment was to reengmeer an architecture would include lower costs, easier-to- existing application into a client-server architecture maintain software, and tighter controls.