HP-UX

HP-UX

Hewlett-Packard’s 64-bit Unix is everywhere in medical environments. If you’ve had an MRI, an MEG or a CAT Scan, it’s likely your images were managed and viewed on an HP-UX workstation.

HP-UX is a System V (as opposed to a BSD) Unix. Mac’s OS X, on the other hand, is a BSD derivative, while you can think of Linux as BSD-like in many of its functions, such as printing. The current version of the OS is 11i (or 11.11), which comes in various flavors such as the Critical Operating Environment version used in medical record storage. Older version 10 workstations are still around, sometimes for application compatibility.

Generally, I’ll keep HP-UX-specific materials here, while most other general Linux and generic Unix issues will live under the GNU/Linux heading.

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