The Development of PA-RISC
PA-RISC proved to be a boon for Hewlett-Packard through the rest of the 80's and into the 90's, as it coincided with the trend to open client/server computing. The reliance of this sort of computing on the UNIX operating system allowed HP to establish its own brand, HP-UX, as a major player in the UNIX world.
Former CEO Lew Platt noted that there would be several opportunities to enhance PA-RISC, but that at some point it would 'run out of steam' and HP would need a next generation architecture. To that end, a team was created to work on this very possibility. Platt notes that the team was made up of people “whom we had acquired from some organizations that were working on very advanced computing techniques. So we brought ...
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