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Corrected, True: OpenVMS has an Intel build made public

Source: https://vmssoftware.com/about/openvmsx86/

They don't offer hobbyist licenses, which is an absolutely braindead decision.

IBM AIX is still developed

Linux added support to SGI Octane machines

It is not ENTIRELY DEAD

edit: This was a wrong statement made by me: "Wrong: HP HPUX has an Intel build in the pipelines", my memory failed me. Corrected above.

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It's certainly not dead. Unix workstations are still really popular for general purpose use. You can go in a local retail chain and buy an Open Group certified Unix 64-bit RISC workstation for £639 here (Argos)...

Would be nice if you had mentioned it was an M1 Mac Mini, I got excited for a moment.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8802877?clickSR=slp:term:app...

Correct. Certification https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1217p.pdf

Do you have any further info? I checked argos.co.uk and couldn't find anything.

I'm not really trying to call you out, I just don't think any of the Open Group certified Unix versions was ever licensed for the consumer market. I would need to see hard evidence to be proven wrong about that.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

Mac Mini M1: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8802877

Certification of the OS: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1217p.pdf which is linked on the page you posted.

It's a proper Unix machine. Costs slightly more than a nickel :)

Absolute nothing like of which you speak exists in the US. Pretty cool that is happening in England (assuming)

> HP HPUX has an Intel build in the pipelines

It does? That's news to me. And to the Internet in general AFAICS.

[[Citation needed]]

There was an internal x86 port of HP-UX that was never released.

https://www.theregister.com/2012/05/23/hp_project_blackbird_...

OK, that's interesting. I wasn't an employee at the Reg back then and I missed that one.

Google "hp-ux x86" and it's the 4th hit (right now).

Not for me it's not. I did Google it before posting.

A few pages down, there is a Slashdot story: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/11/06/1354237/hps-non...

You are correct, see my modified statement in my original comment.

VMS, not HP-UX

Oh, I know about that! :-) I wrote about that months ago, when it reached shipping status.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/openvms_92/

I was a VMS sysadmin in the early 1990s. This was very pleasing news.

You can buy a Raptor POWER9 box, too. I think even a "low-end" Blackbird would easily qualify as a modern Unix workstation (the bigboy Talos II definitely would).

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